Guardian Paying Musk’s X Thousands Despite ‘Quitting’ Last Year – Guido Fawkes

Guardian Paying Musk’s X Thousands Despite ‘Quitting’ Last Year

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Despite The Guardian quitting Musk’s X in a tantrum last year it is still paying the company to the tune of thousands of pounds. Nice of them…

Co-conspirators will remember the paper declaring: “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.” Its bio on X says: “This account has been archived.” Money is still changing hands however…

Seeing as the account still has a gold tick for a verified organisation and its political editor Pippa Crerar has an affiliate account with the little Guardian logo next to her name the paper is still subscribed as a Full Access verified organisation. Price tag attached to that…

The Guardian has to pay for Crerar’s affiliate account along with some others such as live blogger Graeme Wearden – that brings the total bill for seven months of having “quit” X to upwards of either £7,350 or £8,680 depending on whether the bill is paid monthly or annually. Tidy sum…

Hilariously every author page on the website features a link to the individual’s X account. In addition Guardian journalists are still highly active on X which everyone has returned to with tails between legs after saying they would be over on Bluesky. Crerar last posted on the alternative platform nine days ago. The pol ed has tweeted over twenty times since then…