"Excellent," said the right-wing disinformation broker, "now there'll be EVEN LESS proof that we're lying about everything readily available to the vanishingly small fraction of the population who cares what's real anymore!"
It may be domino for the left in the UK. However I expect x is gaining a lot trump voters back. Elon needs them as I expect it's still costing him £££ to run
Ah yes, I can see a mirroring account and an unofficial feed as well as an Aus one, but no direct UK version? Did I miss one you saw? In part I was asking in case there was a known plan to move here.
I am torn between "Let's all get the heck out and reduce his advertising income' or 'Let the relatively sane voice of British media and opinion still have a place there" Talking about BBC etc. I left months ago.....but I'm not important... but I'm enjoying being here..
Extrodinary but inevitable I don't get why people stuck it out as long as they did it was toxic enough when I left at the start of the year. Musk is the true meaning of fuck around & find out. Imagine spending all that money on controlling people and forcing them to like you only to see them leave.
As Elon Musk himself just has been affiliated with the state by Felon Trump, his X propaganda platform obviously became a member of the state-affiliated media too.
It's not extraordinary at all Ian, Twitter or X is now the biggest misinformation spreader in the world, all newspapers should follow, I know The Sun, The Mail and The Express won't come off, but you can't call them serious publications just as you can't call #GBeebies a serious News channel.
Let’s hope this is just the start. Looks like @mrjamesob.bsky.social is also weaning himself off X, and I’ve banged on at ex colleagues at Channel Four News and ITV News to follow suit. I get the feeling they’ve been waiting for some sort of a tipping point to be reached, and perhaps it has been.
Any media left on X at the end of November will obviously be looking to curry favour with trump / musk. Possibly out of fear, but that's hardly going to help their image. I doubt any of the millions on here would believe a word they printed.
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For those that don’t know the guardian is funded via a trust setup in the 19th century and reader donations. They are as independent a media source as we have.
I would expect this to be the beginning of a stampede from publications, companies, sports teams etc. particularly if X ends up merging with Truth Social.
It’s not a good look for any brand to be associated with what is essentially a far-right talking shop.
It’s good to see X slowly collapsing before our eyes, but the pleasure is tempered by the knowledge that it’s already served the purpose Musk had for it when he bought it.
I guess that depends on when you date the start of the collapse. If we take it from the moment Musk bought the platform, I'd say it's been pretty slow, but increasing following the election results.
I suspect X still has further to fall under Musk. I have been on Bluesky 3 days without blocking anyone. Before leaving X I don’t think I went longer than 10 minutes at a time without finding something batshit crazy or plain nasty to block.
Have just deleted twitter app from all devices. (Yay!) Have tried threads, mastadon and bsky and it seemed that bsky is the way to go for the content that I prefer.
Its future is not written in stone. Nothing in the internet age will ‘always be there’. Even right wing journos won’t waste their time posting to a cast of bots.
Reputable companies understand the importance of maintaining their brand integrity and choose not to associate with social platforms that fail to uphold high standards.
Reading the comments on this announcement compared to responses on X confirms my decision to move here the is the right one. Fed up of the toxicity and lies on X.
Wonderful news! It's about time, I hope they remove all their posts so it can't be used to train Grok. He will only use that info to create targeted ads to manipulate future elections.
If I sat in the board of one of Elon Musks companies I’d be concerned about how he can run them and the US government at the same time. Cause we all know it’s him, not Trump running the show.
Remember when Big Tobacco lost some lawsuits? They then shifted their marketing overseas. Look for Xshitter to do something similar, taking the Autocracy Starter Kit to overthrow whatever democracies still exist at this point.
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And we can breathe.
Novel isn’t it?
Place is more or less becoming truth social anyway
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It’s not a good look for any brand to be associated with what is essentially a far-right talking shop.
Better to just get out.
The Guardian is one of the best for news.
I think he's fucked it...
Advertise 1st Jan as ‘Shut down Musk day’ for all influencers of sound mind and with a social conscience.
Time enough for active followers
Will the last person on X please turn out the lights?
https://www.ft.com/content/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13
https://youtu.be/RL3EjH9-WSs?si=JdJJYIbXyg8CCPzJ