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The Guardian announced plans to leave X over what it calls “toxic content” and U.S. election coverage. Meanwhile, social media site BlueSky has gained huge numbers of users in the past week.
Brooke Erin Duffy
Associate Professor of Communication
Brooke Erin Duffy, an associate professor of communication at Cornell University, is a social media expert. She says sites like BlueSky are an antidote to a platform increasingly associated with hate-mongering and lopsided content moderation.
Duffy says:
“Since Elon Musk’s corporate takeover in 2022, many Twitter users have sought an alternative network on platforms like Mastodon and Threads. But the platform ecosystem seems to have reached a tipping point in the aftermath of the recent presidential election, with countless users heralding ‘BlueSky’ as a safer, kinder community. In other words, it’s the antidote to a platform increasingly associated with hate-mongering and lopsided content moderation. The surge in journalists and academics in the last 48 hours has been astonishing.”
