End of a love affair: news media quit X over disinformation [Video]

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 stop publishing its articles on the social media platform.

“Since Elon Musk took over, the platform has increasingly merged with his and Donald Trump’s political ambitions,” said editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski.

Already on Wednesday, Britain’s centre-left daily The Guardian had announced it would no longer post content from its official accounts on X, which it called “toxic”.

A day later, Spain’s Vanguardia did the same, saying it would rather lose subscribers than remain on a “disinformation network”.

Several users had already wondered back in 2022 whether they should remain on Twitter when Musk — a businessman …