Elon Musk is on the “blacklist” of the Guardian since, as he announced, he will no longer publish his content from his official X accounts.

In a statement to readers, the news organization indicated that it will not publish content as it says it believes that the benefits of its presence on the platform are outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it.

In particular, the British newspaper says: “We wanted to inform readers that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial account on social networking site X.”

The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with about 27 million followers.

Meanwhile, the Guardian said content on the platform it had long-standing concerns about included far-right conspiracy theories and racist comments. He added that the site’s coverage of the US presidential election has crystallized his decision.

“This is something we have been looking at for some time, given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism,” the Guardian points out.

“The US presidential election campaign has only served to highlight what we have long believed: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use his influence to shape the political speech” emphasizes the British newspaper.

However, the Guardian reports that X users will still be able to share his articles across the platform, and that X posts will occasionally be integrated into his work as part of the news feed. Journalists will also be able to continue using the platform for news gathering purposes.

Although official Guardian accounts are being pulled from X, there will be no restrictions on individual reporters using the site beyond the organisation’s existing social media guidelines.

“Social media can be an important tool for news organizations and help us reach new audiences, but, at this point, X now plays a reduced role in promoting our work. Our journalism is available and open to everyone on our website and we would prefer people to come to theguardian.com and support our work there,” the Guardian said.

Last year, National Public Radio [NPR]the US non-profit media organization, stopped publishing on X after the social media platform labeled it a “state media”. PBS, an American public television network, also suspended his posts for the same reason.

This month, the Berlin film festival said it was dropping X, without giving an official reason, while last month North Wales Police said it stopped using X because it was “no longer consistent with our values”. . In August, the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital said it was also pulling out of X, citing an “increased volume of hate speech and abusive comments” on the platform.