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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/19893452

« Social media can be an important tool for news organisations and help us to reach new audiences but at this point X now plays a diminished role in promoting our work. Our journalism is available and open to all on our website and we would prefer people to come to theguardian.com and support our work there » the Guardian said.

Responding to the announcement, Musk posted on X that the Guardian was « irrelevant » and a « laboriously vile propaganda machine ».

Last year National Public Radio (NPR), the non-profit US media organisation, stopped posting on X after the social media platform labelled it as « state-affiliated media ». PBS, a US public TV broadcaster, suspended its posts for the same reason.

This month the Berlin film festival said it was quitting X, without citing an official reason, and last month the North Wales police force said it had stopped using X because it was « no longer consistent with our values ».

In August the Royal National orthopaedic hospital said it was leaving X, citing an « increased volume of hate speech and abusive commentary » on the platform.

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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

2 years too late

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 15 points 1 week ago

Are they migrating to Wayland?

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago
  1. It's called Twitter (don't allow the scum rebrand their shit)
  2. Good, I hope more organizations follow suit
[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Rare mainstream news W

[–] 0x815 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am wondering whether the recent incident has also something to do with ii:

‘Go to hell’: how Project 2025 chief kicked the Guardian out of book event

Heritage Foundation staff member, introducing Kevin Roberts to the reporter, says: ‘You’ve got two minutes with our best friend Adam from the Guardian’

[–] federalreverse 2 points 1 week ago

Weird incident & a weird article. The author is apparently struggling to write a third-person article about himself.