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.
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.
Title is a bit misleading:
So they’re keeping their main, largest accounts alive.
I’m surprised they stuck with Twitter even though they were labelled as state media
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.
It’s exactly that it harms their credibility when they are associated with RT. Apparently PBS and BBC left Twitter because of that