ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X
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The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts
  • ZagorathEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Title is a bit misleading:

    The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms.

    There will only be four remaining official ABC accounts: @abcnews, @abcsport, @abcchinese and the master @abcaustralia account. ABC Chinese reaches Chinese-speaking audiences on X.

    “Starting from today, other ABC accounts will be discontinued,” the ABC managing director, David Anderson, has told staff.

    So they’re keeping their main, largest accounts alive.

      • ZagorathEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Why would they leave over that? That’s just a fact. They are state media. YouTube shows the same label.

        Sure, it’s a bit unfair to tar the ABC with the same brush as RT, but it’s reasonably easy for a viewer to see that one is state media of Australia and the other is state media of Russia, and that those two are obviously not equivalent.