The Guardian's legit accounts

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8 Accounts

Manually checked for accuracy Aug 28, 24

Total followers 20M

The Guardian's Twitter/X account

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@guardian

10.9M followers

Account established: Nov 5, 09

Tracked since: Nov 3, 23

The Guardian's Instagram account

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@guardian

5.8M followers

Tracked since: Nov 3, 23

Tracked since: Nov 3, 23

The Guardian's YouTube channel

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@TheGuardian

2.3M subscribers

Account established: Feb 14, 06

Tracked since: Nov 3, 23

The Guardian's TikTok account

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@guardian

360.6K followers

Tracked since: Nov 3, 23

Tracked since: Aug 28, 24

Tracked since: Aug 28, 24

Tracked since: Aug 28, 24

Profile Bios

Twitter/X bio

Twitter/X

The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter: https://t.co/kFXqbVRovR

Instagram bio

Instagram

200 years of independent journalism 🌏
Fearlessly holding power to account 🔍
Always factual 🤝 Never dull 💃

YouTube bio

YouTube

The Guardian brings you news, documentaries, and explainers about current global issues.

The Guardian has been providing high-impact, independent journalism since 1821, always free from commercial and political influence. Help sustain our future by making a contribution today ► https://bit.ly/2Zyt72O

The Guardian YouTube network:

Guardian News ► http://is.gd/guardianwires
Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball
Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport
Guardian Australia ► http://bit.ly/gdnaustraliasubs

LinkedIn bio

LinkedIn

Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821, and the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer.

The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism including, most recently the Cambridge Analytica, Paradise and Panama Papers investigations as well as the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning NSA revelations.

TikTok bio

TikTok

Always factual, never dull 💃

Profile Photos

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Twitter/X

The Guardian's Instagram photo
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Instagram

The Guardian's YouTube photo
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YouTube

The Guardian's LinkedIn photo
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LinkedIn

The Guardian's TikTok photo
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TikTok

This is The Guardian's profile photo consistency across the legit accounts tracked by NotCommon. Scammers often take advantage of the lack of consistency across an entity's accounts, so the more profile photos are the same, the better.

Username Distribution

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This is The Guardian's username distribution across the platforms tracked by NotCommon. Low username variation makes it more difficult for impersonators and scammers to create accounts pretending to be The Guardian.

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