The French newspaper announced today that it will stop posting its content on the X platform due to the “intensification of activism” of its owner, , and the “increasing toxicity of conversations” between users.
“We will also step up our vigilance on many other platforms, notably TikTok and those of the Meta group, following the alarming statements of Mark Zuckerberg,” who has ideologically aligned himself with Republican US President-elect Donald Trump, Le director said. Monde Jerome Fenolio in the main article of the vigilance.
Musk, who bought the former Twitter in 2022, transformed it “into an extension of his political activism, a libertarianism that is increasingly approaching the extreme right, an instrument of the pressure he wants to exert on his competitors or on European social democratic governments,” he added .
“This mix of ideology and commerce increasingly obscured it like most other traditional media,” he said, underlining that for more than a year, the newspaper’s posts on the platform had been reduced “to the minimum possible.”
Henceforth, posting her content to the platform will be suspended for as long as X “operates this way.” Fenolio recommends her journalists do the same. He also expresses the hope that “the European Union will not capitulate to the definition of public debate, which is governed by rules, respects the participants, the information they circulate and the opinions they hold”.
Many French media outlets (Ouest France, Sud Ouest, Mediapart, La Voix du Nord) as well as other countries (The Guardian, La Vanguardia) have already stopped posting their content on the X platform due to Trump’s return to the White House. Musk, a close associate and financial supporter of the Republican, is expected to be appointed a minister in his administration.
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