‘It’s Not Worth It’: Joy Reid, Don Lemon Announce Departure From X

MSNBC host Joy Reid and former CNN host Don Lemon announced their exits from the social media site X Wednesday, with the latter saying it was “time to leave.”

Reid posted a video on TikTok and Instagram Wednesday announcing her departure from X, while Lemon made his announcement via both a video and a written statement posted to the social media site. Reid claimed she had not posted on X in “a long time” but used it for newsgathering.

“Hey, guys. So, today I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while,” Reid said in the video, which cut to a screenshot of Reid deactivating her account on X. “And, um, the reason for doing it and kissing goodbye my 1.9 million followers over there is because 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.”

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“But just having it there, I was only holding on to it, um, because I, you know, really didn’t want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes,” Reid claimed. “I was a little bit worried about that. Um, and I every so often I would use it to just like sort of look at news that was trending and what’s happening, and I would just sorta use it as an aggregator, but I just realized it’s not worth it. Because in order to do the news aggregation and just look at all, you have to wade through a lot of drek and a lot of just abuse, and a lot of negativity, it’s just not worth it.”