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The newspaper has since added a disclaimer to its primary account, stating We know there are downsides to removing ourselves from X, but we think that on balance it’s the right course as the platform becomes ever more toxic,
X users will still be able to share our articles, and the nature of live news reporting means we will still occasionally embed content from X within our article pages
The Guardian statement added This raises suspicions as to whether Musk has tweaked the platform’s algorithm to increase the reach of his posts in advance of the US presidential election,
wrote Timothy Graham, an associate professor in digital media at Queensland University of Technology and Mark Andrejevic, a professor in media at Monash University, who undertook the research 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 Guardian said in an editorial published on its website 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,
We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X,
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 US 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.”
