The Guardian to no longer post on ‘toxic media platform’ X

The British news outlet quits X citing ‘disturbing content’ on the platform, including racism and conspiracy theories.

British news outlet The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on X due to the “disturbing content” on the “toxic media platform”, including racism and conspiracy theories.

The Guardian wrote on its website on Wednesday that it had been considering the decision to stop posting on the social media outlet for a while, but the US election earlier in November “underlined” its decision.

“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,” the Guardian wrote.

“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 news outlet said users on X would still be able to share its articles on X and would still “occasionally embed content from X” within its articles, given “the nature of live news reporting”.