Guardian quits X: Here's what Elon Musk has said about the publication in the past

In response to Guardian's exit, Musk posted on X: 'They are irrelevant.'

British news publisher The Guardian said on Wednesday it will no longer post on X, citing "disturbing content" on the social media platform, including racism and conspiracy theories.

The left-leaning Guardian, which has 10.7 million followers on X, becomes the first large UK media company to retreat from the platform that Elon Musk purchased in 2022.

"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere," The Guardian said in an editorial published on its website.

In response, Musk posted on X, "They are irrelevant."

This is not the first time Musk has engaged in an altercation with the publication.

In April this year, Musk posted an image showing the traffic decline faced by the publication as the Tesla CEO claimed that "The Guardian is down by 2/3 since 2020."

Later in the year, replying to a post slamming the publication's article on climate change, Musk wrote: "My little finger nail knows more about climate issues than the entire staff of The Guardian."

Musk has often called the publication "shameless extreme left propaganda machine", "super racist", and "trash".

Along with The Guardian, over 1,15,000 users left X (formerly known as Twitter) right after the elections. This marked the largest single-day exit the platform has seen since Musk assumed role in the X office.

This comes after Musk was seen assuming an active role in Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election. The US President-Elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that a government efficiency panel headed by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk will issue reports on its work to streamline the US government.

"They will be coming out with individual reports and a big one at the end," Trump said in a speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, providing the first new detail on the panel's output since it was announced earlier this week.

(With Reuters inputs)