News media quit X over ‘disinformation’
News outlets have begun quitting X, formerly Twitter, once a favourite of global media but now accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner, president-elect Donald Trump ally Elon Musk. Citing a “harsh and extreme” climate, Sweden’s newspaper of reference, the left-liberal Dagens Nyheter (DN), on Friday became third major media outlet to […]
UK’s The Guardian stops posting on ‘toxic media platform’ X
Britain’s The Guardian newspaper announced Wednesday it would no longer post content from its official accounts on Elon Musk’s X, branding it a “toxic media platform” home to “often disturbing content”. “We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives,” the left-leaning newspaper, which has nearly 11 million followers […]
Mark Zuckerberg says ‘time to move on’ from Elon Musk cage fight
Mark Zuckerberg has accused Elon Musk of not being serious about the pair having a cage fight – and says it is time to “move on” from the saga. The Facebook co-founder said his tech billionaire counterpart did not appear to want to go through with the highly-anticipated clash after failing to even agree on […]
Elon Musk reveals why he’s rebranding Twitter to X – as police disrupt company’s sign removal
Elon Musk has said the Twitter name “does not make sense” as he rebrands the platform into an “everything app” called X. The world’s richest man has not been shy of putting his own stamp on the site he bought for $44bn last October and has now embarked on the most dramatic change in its […]
