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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Worth noting, for those that aren't going to bother reading the first line of the article, this is ABC the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not ABC the American Broadcasting Company

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is hilarious. Not only are they only shutting down all but four of their biggest Twitter accounts it's also not even the company people are thinking about. This is literally news about nothing happening and people are still riled up. Well done OP. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's not nothing. This is similar to if BBC stopped using it, only on a smaller scale.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

We're so mad at the changes that we're going to consolidate our accounts to make it easier to use this platform!

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle 12 points 1 year ago

That makes it so much more relevant to me. I wasnt going to read it because I figured it was the American ABC

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

American Broadcasting Company

I've never heard of the American Broadcasting Company. Is that a thing? It's always Australian anytime anyone mentions the ABC.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, it’s a private cable news and entertainment network in the states.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US version is one of the big 3 broadcast channels transmitting since the mid 1900s, though it's now also on cable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Broadcast not cable, and owned by Disney.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There were basically 3 channels for a while -- ABC, NBC, CBS. But yeah, their brand has really diminished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ten percent of people didn't know and now feel bad they were tricked...

The other ninety percent don't care because they just have hate boners for Twitter.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It says Australian in the headline

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... after you click on the title that does not

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's on the person who posted this to Lemmy, not the Guardian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like your client is hiding that from you. Check it out in the Lemmy web UI and it's there.