Paris mayor quits X, calling social media site a 'gigantic global sewer'

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.

After buying Twitter in 2022, the billionaire Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform. Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and has been criticised, including by the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

“Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies,” she added. ............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/paris-mayor-anne-hidalgo-quits-x-calling-social-media-site-a-gigantic-global-sewer

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Limit your dependence on things an Egoloon can buy and control.

[redqueen]

2. How TF is everyone not doing this

Elon is a scourge and twitter is more of a cesspool than ever before.

[Boomerproud]

3. Cesspool. Sewer.

Both adjectives work for me.

[Arthur_Frain]

4. He's not wrong

This place gets pretty septic at times. Like now.

Pseudo-anonymity and denial bring out the worst in us as a species, apparently.