The Western left is fleeing Twitter, but not the Chinese communist dictatorship's web

Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election is having a curious effect on the Internet.

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The Guardian calls Twitter a “toxic media platform”

Following Elon Musk's support for Trump, some influential voices on the left are abandoning X (formerly known as Twitter). The most striking case became known on Wednesday, November 13: the British leftist newspaper The Guardian announced that it is stopping using Twitter, upset by Musk's respect for freedom of speech, an anger that the newspaper has explained with these words: "X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."

The toxicity and infamous biases of the British leftist newspaper

It’s funny that this British outlet is talking about toxicity. In June, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) accused The Guardian of being one of the outlets that "have spent the last eight months often acting as Hamas’s stenographers rather than independent journalists." A bias that is common in many Western leftist media and that The Guardian has applied in a way typical of an organization dedicated to political activism.

Similarly, in October 2023, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) denounced the British outlet's anti-Israel bias, criticizing its false accusations of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" against Israel, lies in line with the slogans of the far left. In 2021, CAMERA had already denounced the dissemination of anti-Semitic statements on the pages of The Guardian, which have also been used to spread libel against the State of Israel for years.

La Vanguardia complains about Twitter's "toxic content"

Even funnier is the case of a Spanish newspaper: La Vanguardia has also announced that it is leaving Twitter due to its "toxic content" and for violating "the minimum concepts of ethics" in a democracy.

Two examples of toxic content published by La Vanguardia

It takes a lot of nerve to say this from a newspaper that set out to demonize British Conservative MP David Amess as soon as the news of his murder in 2021 became known, simply because he disagreed with the ideological dogmas of the left.

Three years earlier, in 2018, La Vanguardia hid the political motive behind an attack by a Catalan separatist against a woman whom he punched while shouting "fucking foreigner" at her. The trial into that attack showed that the outlet lied about the events in an attempt to downplay what happened. And now that outlet still has the cynicism to give lessons in democratic ethics.

The Guardian and La Vanguardia keep their TikTok accounts active

Significantly, while announcing that they are leaving Twitter, an American social network that respects freedom of expression in accordance with democratic principles, The Guardian and La Vanguardia maintain their accounts active on TikTok, a social network based in communist China that imposes censorship at the request of the sole party of that dictatorship, both inside and outside that Asian country.

A social network controlled by the Chinese Communist Party

A few months ago, US Senator Marsha Blackburn denounced communist China as using TikTok as a weapon against the US, pointing out that it is a "wide-scale espionage and propaganda wielded by the Chinese Communist Party against the American people" and recalling that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, "is tied to the Chinese Communist Party by strict laws in Beijing that force companies to hand over users’ personal data." But none of this seems to bother the Western left.

Like other progressive voices, The Guardian and La Vanguardia prefer to be on a social network controlled by a communist dictatorship than on a social network where freedom of expression reigns. I think that says everything about these media and about Western progressivism, which always treat conservative democratic rulers with more disdain than the Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, a bias that is tremendously revealing of what the left actually thinks and wants for the West.

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