It’s not only angry liberals who are rage-quitting X following President-elect Donald Trump’s dominant victory. On Wednesday one of the largest outlets in the world abruptly stopped posting, writing that the “toxic” platform necessitated its exit.
The BBC reported that the Guardian, the U.K. paper of record, announced it would no longer participate in a “toxic media platform” owned by Elon Musk, a Trump supporter who on Tuesday was tapped to co-lead a new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency. In a statement, the mainstream news outlet said Trump’s win “underlined” its concern that Musk unfairly used X to “shape political discourse.”
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“We 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 paper wrote in a message to readers on Wednesday. “This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and