The Guardian quits Musk's X, Musk's ex quits him

Iconic centre-left broadsheet The Guardian has announced its decision to leave X (Twitter), which it called a “toxic media platform”. The communication site was bought by tech billionaire Elon Musk, who once allegedly offered to buy a flight attendant a horse in exchange for sex, in 2022, and has undergone a number of controversial changes since.

Content Warning: contains discussion of Sexual Assault, Racism, Antisemitism, Transphobia, and Elon Musk.

Central to The Guardian’s statement was the recent US Election, in which convicted felon and sexual abuser Donald Trump won a 2^nd term in The White House. The Manchester-based paper argued that three-time divorcee Elon Musk had used the platform to “shape political discourse”.

Musk, who once called a cave rescuer a “pedo guy” because he didn’t like a submarine, was front and centre of Trump’s campaign, and spent more time at the President-elect’s rallies than he did with his daughter, Vivian, mostly because she disowned him. Luckily though, Musk's ex-wife, Grimes, came out in support of Vivian in a post on Elon's own platform - that's got to sting.

The South African-born Henry Ford-wannabe, who grew up during Apartheid, will take up a leadership role at the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short – like the funny dog! Do you remember the epic meme with the funny dog, dear readers? Isn’t Elon funny.

It is somewhat surprising that Elon is so keen to reduce the size of the US government, given that it has awarded his company, SpaceX, $15.3billion in government contracts since 2003. Even his beloved Donald Trump, whose campaign was helped by a $200m donation by Elon’s PAC, argued that Musk would be “worthless” without subsidy – get better friends, Elon.

Further reasoning was provided by The Guardian, including dismay at the promotion of “disturbing” far-right content on X. Since buying the platform for $44 Billion dollars, roughly equivalent to the entire GDP of Latvia, Musk has unbanned and boosted a number of far-right influencers. Most notably, baldest man alive Andrew Tate, who was banned from Twitter in 2017 after claiming women should “bare some responsibility” for being raped, was brought back by Musk. Tate has since gone on to call Meta’s AI a “N****r Jew” and has hinted at his admiration for Adolf Hitler. Yes, really. I, for one, am shocked and appalled that The Guardian don’t want to share a platform with these types of people. Then again, you can't even display open affection for fascist politics without the woke left calling you a Nazi these days!

Unfortunately, it is somewhat doubtful that The Guardian’s decision will have any kind of impact on Musk. After all, the billionaire has described them as an “extreme left propaganda machine” and said that the broadsheet “sucks donkey (aubergine emoji)”. Epic roast Elon! You’ve won the internet for today sir! I tip my fedora for you!

At the end of the day, this debacle is about more than just the newspaper my dad reads. Far-right politics is on the rise everywhere, platformed and boosted by the richest man on the planet. It may be funny to laugh at Musk, believe me, it’s basically all I do. However, behind the pathetic man desperate for attention and his god-awful website, there is the rising tide of fascism. Musk described a post that claimed Jews were pushing anti-white hatred as the “actual truth” and has let open Nazism run rampant on X. We can only hope that other publications follow The Guardian’s example, because make no mistake, what was once Twitter is now a sanctuary for hatred.