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ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they stuck with Twitter even though they were labelled as state media

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It's exactly that it harms their credibility when they are associated with RT. Apparently PBS and BBC left Twitter because of that