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Summary

The Guardian has announced it will stop posting on Elon Musk’s platform, X, citing "often disturbing content" such as far-right conspiracy theories and racism.

The news outlet, with 27 million followers across over 80 accounts, stated that the US presidential election coverage on X reinforced its view that the platform had become "toxic."

While The Guardian's official accounts will withdraw, reporters may still use X for newsgathering.

This move follows similar actions by NPR, PBS, and other organizations concerned about the platform’s content standards under Musk’s ownership.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How so? I've been looking it over, and it doesn't seem to have any of the enshittification I've seen all over Facebook (let alone Xitter, which is made entirely of festering anus now).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They just did another VC financing round and are now partially owned by "Blockchain Capital".

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113472115447080382

As for the site itself, I don't think it's at the enshitification phase yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Jesus fucking Christ. This should be the top comment people read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't like that it's not mastodon, therefore it is "going to shit".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

ads, eye-ball algorithm, data sales - looks like you love the trifecta of feces. sure you ain't a fly?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Well the obvious one is that they refuse to federate. That inevitably means they have plans to commercialize the platform and want to stay in control. But also little things like the fact that you cant view "age restricted" content without an account. Maybe they will stay somewhat nice for a while but in the end its always the same and there will be nothing you can do about it because they have complete control of the platform and the followers.