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Re:Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X by rurp on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:28PM (#42130870)
Musk claims a lot of things. Amplifying right wing propaganda and conspiracy theories, often from his own twitter account, is not politically neutral.
Re:Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X by jslaby on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:12PM (#42131256)
It's not even amplified just from his account but the site itself. Create a new account and follow something like sports or entertainment.. then see what floods your feed. I logged in first time today, and it's quite shocking actually. Not a single left leaning account, just all maga that outnumbers the sports or whatever you clicked as interests.
Re:Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X by wruza on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @10:34PM (#42132903)
Is it even strange, considering that elections just happened and who’s gonna be the new president?
Re:Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X by tzs on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:43PM (#42131903)
At least it provides some entertainment in seeing conspiracy theories I'd never heard of. Just now Twitter showed me a tweet about how offshore wind energy projects will lead to the rapid extinction of Right whales.

Apparently this is going to be the Trump administration's justification for trying to kill offshore wind power.

Of course as is par for the course the people who actually study and work with Right whales say that theory is wrong and there is little evidence of serious harm to the whales from such projects.

Re:Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday November 14, 2024 @08:39AM (#42136037)
Exactly, that's my point. The Guardian makes no claims to be politically neutral.