Elon Musk has slammed The Guardian after an article said that social media users are fleeing his X site.
The platform, formerly known as Twitter, was acquired by Musk in 2022.
In the Guardian article, it was claimed that "research from Pew found that in the first few months after Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, 60 per cent of US Twitter users took a break of a few weeks or more from the platform."
It added that "a quarter of those surveyed said they did not see themselves using the site at all within a year."
Musk has hit out at The Guardian
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In response, to this, X user DogeDesigner said: "The Guardian is lying! There has been no decline in users since Elon Musk took over.
"In fact, X is more popular than ever, experiencing an all-time high in usage The more X grows, the more frequent such attacks will happen as Traditional media is a direct competitor to X."
Musk replied to the tweet claiming that: "The Guardian is down by 2/3 since 2020." Commentator Oli London responded saying: "Go woke = go broke. X is the only place to be for real news."
GB News has contacted The Guardian for a comment.
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Musk bought Twitter in 2022, and has since rebranded it to X
ReutersThe latest debate comes after the Australian government has taken the platform to court in an effort to force the removal of a video of a Sydney bishop being allegedly stabbed as he officiated a church service last week.
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner told X to remove footage of the stabbing, which police say was religiously-motivated and over which they have charged a 16-year-old boy with a terrorism offence.
After X challenged the order from the Australian court, the federal court told the platform to remove the footage temporarily.
X has said it will fight the order and at another court hearing on Wednesday the company's lawyer said the bishop who was attacked had supplied a statement that he wanted the footage kept online.
Home Affairs Minster Clare O'Neill said social media companies created "civil division, social unrest ... and we're not seeing a skerrick of responsibility taken.
"Instead, we're seeing megalomaniacs like Elon Musk going to court to fight for the right to show alleged terrorist content on his platform."
X and Musk have said they complied with the temporary takedown order by blocking it for Australians, but that they would appeal it.
