It’s no secret to anybody who’s usually on social media and isn’t from the land of MAGA Delulu that Elon Musk has not solely eroded the worth of X, the platform previously often known as Twitter, however he has turned it right into a utopia of racial slurs, right-wing propaganda and shameless Trump-humping. Nicely, one media outlet is just not about to fake Musk hasn’t turned X right into a MAGA fan web page and it’ll now not put up on the platform due to it.
The Guardian is having none of Musk and his X-Klan (see what I did there?) shenanigans.
From Selection:
The Guardian made the announcement on Wednesday in a put up on its web site, writing that “the advantages of being on the platform previously known as Twitter” have now been “outweighed by the negatives.” The publication cited the “usually disturbing content material” discovered on the platform and mentioned the best way it dealt with final week’s U.S. presidential election — which noticed Donald Trump win a second time period — “crystallized” its resolution.
“That is one thing we’ve been contemplating for some time given the usually disturbing content material promoted or discovered on the platform, together with far-right conspiracy theories and racism,” the publication mentioned. “The U.S. presidential election marketing campaign served solely to underline what we’ve thought of for a very long time: that X is a poisonous media platform and that its proprietor, Elon Musk, has been ready to make use of its affect to form political discourse.”
Musk, after all, responded to the information on X by mainly describing Trump however making use of the definition to The Guardian, tweeting, “They’re a laboriously vile propaganda machine.”
That’s wealthy coming from the man who helps the man who has been fact-checked and located to be mendacity greater than any fashionable president — the identical president who spent 4 years spreading factless and completely debunked election fraud propaganda till he kicked and screamed his approach again into the White Home.
Shout out to The Guardian for refusing to normalize Musk, Trump and the remainder of the white nationalist propagandists who’re, certainly, counting on lies and bigotry to “form political discourse.” That’s what integrity really appears like, not that any of the aforementioned would know something about that.
