French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.
Took em long enough
Pathetic that this is the first. Get your shit together French news outlets.
French are using Twitter a lot. Even people that are considered pretty far to the left. I’ve tried to discuss this with a few french connections I have and it’s always “but that’s where the people are”…
Slaves to fashion
I never understood Twitter. I tried it for like a almost a month and eventually forgot my password and just didn’t care anymore.
But when I did use it, you make a tweet or comment and then either no one responds to it, or like a hundred people respond with mostly vitriol or just total confusion, not even relating to your comment.
It ended up just being like a really shitty news feed, with a mix of random people from Ghana that started following me and visa versa for whatever reasons.
X the everything (except the guardian, ouest-france etc.) app
Let’s get on the fediverse
Wait, all others still do?
and the day after, one of their local offices got tagged with X. Extremists groups in France have clearly chosen their platform. https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/faits-divers/la-vitrine-de-la-redaction-ouest-france-a-lorient-taguee-x-351c961e-a75c-11ef-b5f5-e7aa8444a877
It’s insane that so many places chose and are still choosing to stay and keep court at this place.
I can’t believe these giant companies put profit over morals. It just doesn’t make sense!
Interesting, I think they legitimately don’t know what they’ll do instead:
“Strictly speaking, there are no alternatives to what X offers today,” Vincent Berthier, head of the technology department at RSF (Reporters Without Borders) told AFP.
“But we may need to invent them.”
I imagine they’ll end up on Bluesky, possibly also on Mastodon?
Doubt it
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