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on X anymore — but isn’t deleting its accounts there, at least for now</a></div><div class="simple-loop-deck">Guardian reporters may still use X for newsgathering, the company said.</div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div></div> <style>.simple-loop-bigart:hover { opacity: 0.8; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s; transition: opacity 0.2s; }</style><div class="simple-loop-article"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a-journalist-and-im-changing-the-way-i-read-news-this-is-how/"><img width="700" height="420" src="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_358835179-700x420.jpeg" class="simple-loop-bigart wp-post-image" alt="" style="width: 100%; height: auto;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_358835179-700x420.jpeg 700w, https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_358835179-768x461.jpeg 768w, https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_358835179-100x60.jpeg 100w, https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_358835179-160x96.jpeg 160w, 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