Elon Musk’s pro-Trump stance causes progressives to flee X for liberal safe space

Liberal pundits and media outlets are leaving the Elon Musk-run Platform X after President-elect Donald Trump won a second term in the White House.

Trump’s re-election sparked a wave of notable abandonment of the platform, which Musk used to openly and vocally express his support for the president-elect. Liberal users are instead switching to Bluesky, a decentralized platform that has reportedly gained more than a million new users since the election, according to The New York Times.

Left-leaning publications and media professionals have hailed the platform as an alternative to X without Trump supporter Musk at the helm. The Guardian quoted “experts” calling Bluesky a “refuge from far-right activism against X,” while the Times reported that many of the newly created accounts were “left-leaning.”

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Last week, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace told viewers that she deleted her X app as an “act of self-preservation.”

“I deleted Twitter today out of self-preservation because I could no longer find the things that interested me. I saw a lot of things I didn’t see,” she said. Wallace’s account remains active on the platform.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon released a statement Wednesday announcing his departure from X, telling his 1.5 million followers that “it’s time for me to leave the platform.”

“I used to believe it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free expression, but now I feel it does not serve that purpose,” he wrote, ending his message with his new Bluesky name.

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Lemon called the new terms of use The new terms require that all litigation be heard exclusively in courts located in Texas, where X is headquartered. Lemon cited the Washington Post’s assertion that the Texas courts would be a “center for conservatives” that could make it “easier for X to protect himself from and punish critics.”

Don Lemon talks about the presidential election on CNN. (Screenshot/CNN)

Earlier on Wednesday, the Guardian announced that it had closed all 80 accounts

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“The US presidential election has only underscored what we have long feared: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use his influence to shape political discourse,” the release said.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis also said goodbye to the platform on Wednesday, posting a screenshot of her account deactivation message with the caption: “God, give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can. And that.” Wisdom to tell the difference.

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In a subsequent post on Bluesky, Curtis posted: “#WeDontNeedX.”

The departures come a day after Trump announced that Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to “dismantle government bureaucracy,” cut “wasteful spending” and restructure federal agencies.

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Musk, who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist,” purchased the platform in April 2022 with the stated intention of leveling the playing field for Twitter for liberals and conservatives alike. His goal was to end the influence of the liberal Sillicon Valley on technology companies. Bluesky was founded in 2019 as a project of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, but became an independent company in 2022.

Bluesky did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.