The Guardian will stop posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, the U.K. media group announced on Wednesday.
In a story posted Wednesday morning U.K. time, The Guardian said that it would stop posting to any of its official editorial accounts, as they “think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.”
The Guardian said it had been considering a move to stop posting on X for some time “given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.”
The media group added that, “the U.S. presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse.”
The Guardian said that users on X will still be able to share the company’s articles on the platform and that “the nature of live news reporting means we will still occasionally embed content from X within our article pages.”
More to come…
