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The paper mentioned it has been contemplating dropping X for a while due to the “typically disturbing content material promoted or discovered on the platform, together with far-right conspiracy theories and racism.”
It additionally singled out Musk, saying that the current U.S. election underlined its view that X is a “poisonous” platform and that Musk makes use of it to affect politics.
Musk was probably the most high-profile campaigners for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and was on Tuesday named as one in every of two heads of a brand new “division of presidency effectivity.”
Outgoing EU justice commissioner Věra Jourová known as Musk a “promoter of evil” in an interview with POLITICO final month. Musk later retorted that Jourová is “the epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil.”
The Guardian’s assertion on Wednesday mentioned that its journalists will proceed to make use of X as a news-gathering supply. But X, it mentioned, now performs a “diminished position in selling our work.”
All Guardian-related accounts on X now say they’ve been archived.
X didn’t instantly reply to POLITICO’s request for remark.
