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Joy Reid Deletes Her X Account Due To ‘Abuse’
Joy Reid, one of the most prominent anchors at MSNBC, deleted her account on Elon Musk’s X platform Thursday morning. The change was noted by the Post Millennial which also nabbed a video Reid released on another platform explaining her decision. “Hey guys,” she told viewers in the one-minute clip. “So today I’ve done something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while.” A screen recording of her phone shows her going through the steps of deleting her account, something Reid claimed was not driven by President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
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“The reason for doing it — and kissing goodbye by 1.9 million followers over there — is that I hadn’t been posting for a long time. I just didn’t want to contribute content once it was purchased by its present owner. But just having it over there, I was only holding on to it, um, because, you know, I really didn’t want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes, I was a little bit worried about that. And also, um, every so often I would use it to like, sort of, look at news that was trending and what’s happening and sort of use it as an aggregator. But I just realized it’s not really worth it because in order to do the news aggregation at all, you have to wade through a lot of dreck and a lot of abuse and a lot of negativity, and it’s just not worth it,” she stated with a smile.
Joy Reid deleted her account on X
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 14, 2024
Reid’s screed comes just over a week after the election, which she covered for the network. When Florida was called for Trump, she decried the state as an “extreme right-wing fascist” playground for politicos like Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Matt Gaetz. Reid continued her meltdown on Threads where she has encouraged Americans to move out of the country for the past week and posted “help me understand this” following a jovial Oval Office moment between Trump and President Joe Biden on Wednesday. “America, you had a good run,” she wrote. “I’m just gone sit over here and do my Black job while y’all figure it out.”
That same day, the Guardian announced it would be quitting X for good, telling readers in an alert that the platform had become a “toxic” hub of misinformation and downplayed the effect its absence would have on the media landscape. Both resignations are indicators that the professional pundit class isn’t taking kindly to the idea that Musk will hold tremendous sway during the next four years, both as the owner of a large social media company and the co-head of a new federal agency tasked with targeting government waste and inefficiency.
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