Liberal pundits and media outlets are fleeing Elon Musk-owned Platform X after newly elected President Donald Trump won a second term in the White House.

Trump’s re-election has sparked a wave of notable departures from the platform Musk has used to openly and loudly express his support for the newly elected president. 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 figures have praised the platform as an alternative to X without Trump backing Musk at the helm. The Guardian quoted “experts” describing Bluesky as a “haven for far-right activism on X,” while the Times reported that many of the new accounts “lean left.”

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The logo of social media platform Bluesky displayed on a mobile phone and tablet in Paris. Social network Bluesky has risen to one of the top spots in social network downloads on app stores in the past week since the US election. ((Photo by Ian LANGSDON/AFP) (Photo by IAN LANGSDON/AFP via Getty Images))

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

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

Ex-CNN host Don Lemon posted 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 once believed it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and freedom of expression, but now I feel it does not serve that purpose,” he wrote, signing his message with his new Bluesky handle.

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Lemon called X’s new terms of service, which take effect later this week, the final straw leading to his departure. The upcoming terms require that all legal disputes be brought exclusively in the courts of Texas, where X is headquartered. Lemon cited the Washington Post’s claim that Texas courts will be a “center for conservatives,” which “could make it easier for X to protect itself from and punish critics.”

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

Earlier Wednesday, The Guardian announced it would suspend all 80 of its accounts on X, labeling the platform “toxic” and accusing Musk of “using his influence to shape political discourse,” Deadline reported.

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“The US presidential election has only underlined what we have been considering for a long time: 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 publication said .

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis also bid farewell to the platform on Wednesday, posting a screenshot of her account deactivation message with the caption: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can change. And the wisdom to know 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, aimed at “dismantling government bureaucracy,” cutting “wasteful spending” and restructuring federal agencies.

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Musk, who prides himself on being a “free speech absolutist,” bought the platform in April 2022 with his stated intention of making Twitter a level playing field for both liberals and conservatives. His goal was to end the hold that liberal-heavy Silicon Valley had on tech 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.