Not only THE GUARDIAN. The decision is also made by a newspaper in our country. THE VANGUARD also leaves X (Twitter). These are your reasons. I summarize them for you: Elon Musk.
LA VANGUARDIA is the first Spanish newspaper to abandon X (formerly Twitter).
The hoaxes about DANA in Valenciawhich have proliferated during the meteorological catastrophe due to the cold drop, have been “the turning point” that has led to a turning point.
THE VANGUARD it will be X (Twitter) and freezes your accounts. The newspaper, run by Jordi Juanmake the decision and support THE GUARDIAN.
The Catalan legacy media maintains the same justifications as the British newspaper.
The generalist of GODÓ group does not want its news to be shared on a toxic social network, whose algorithm favors hoaxes, hatred or violence, “values totally contrary to the newspaper,” as they explain to ReddePeriodistas.com internal sources.
So, THE VANGUARD (1.3 million followers) prefers to leave Xthan maintaining its informative brand on a platform “without any type of moderation” in this regard.
LA VANGUARDIA will give its editorial freedom of decision to use their personal profiles on X (Twitter)
In the same way that he decided THE GUARDIANthe formula will be to freeze your activity on the platform Elon Muskalthough they will not block URLs from your news feed and any user will be able to share them on X.
The Catalan newspaper nor will it prevent its journalists tweet content from the house on the social network previously called Twitterwhich leaves its editorial staff free to decide whether to emulate the newspaper on a personal level or not.
LA VANGUARDIA is the first Spanish newspaper to abandon Elon Musk’s social network
«On the same day that it was known that the owner of XElon Musk, would join a position of high responsibility in the new Administration of Donald Trump, LA VANGUARDIA has decided to stop publishing tweets on this social network,” the director explains to his readers. Jordi Juan.
«Our header will keep your accounts frozen in X and will monitor people, entities or companies that post content on this channel in order to continue informing its readers promptly. “The decision has been made not to contribute to the growth of this channel with the traffic created by LA VANGUARDIA,” he added.
«The recent election campaign in the United States or the lies that have been spread regarding the DANA from Valencia “have contributed to the decision made by our newspaper,” he stressed. Jordi Juan in the printed version of the Catalan newspaper.
Thus, it is the first Spanish newspaper to make such a drastic decision, after THE GUARDIAN in the United Kingdom opted for the same position.
In that case, he alluded to the fact that Elon Musk had turned the old Twitter, today X, into a channel toxic that favored the conspiracy theories and the racism of the far right.
«This social network has become a platform where people find a sounding board. conspiracy theories and misinformationsome ideas that have in what was once Twitter a way to multiply its reach that they would not have if it had effective and reasonable moderation,” argues LA VANGUARDIA in its paper version, dated Wednesday, November 14.
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