The Spanish daily La Vanguardia, based in Barcelona, announced Thursday that it would no longer publish content on British The Guardian.
“The ex-Twitter makes messages go viral that violate human rights,” accused the newspaper in an editorial, in which it emphasizes that it will however continue to follow the accounts of personalities, companies or of personalities to “be able to punctually inform its readers of messages or debates which can be exchanged or take place there”.
“Managers of the newspaper indicated that they had been worried for a long time because conspiracy theories and contempt for human rights are very present on X. The factor which ultimately decided them to leave the social network was the coverage of the presidential elections in the United States,” the text continued.
Following the election that he won on November 5, Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint the boss of X Elon Musk – the richest man in the world, acquirer of Twitter, now X, in 2022 – at the head of a commission responsible for cutting public spending, jointly with Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
“X has been filled with toxic content since the arrival of Elon Musk […] in an increasingly marked manner, lashed out again at La Vanguardia. This social network has transformed into a platform on which conspiracy theories and disinformation find a sounding board.
“The growing presence of “bots” on X has multiplied to the point of ridicule, in serious cases like the cold drop tragedy in Valencia [les récentes intempéries qui ont fait plus de 220 morts dans le sud-est du pays]during which countless “bots” of Indian origin took part in public debates on this social network,” the daily further underlined.
“This newspaper notes that ideas that violate human rights, such as hatred towards ethnic minorities, misogyny and racism, are part of the viral content that circulates on X, where they go viral and capture users’ time in order to make more money from ads,” he described.
Already on Wednesday, The Guardian announced that it was leaving the social network, calling it a “toxic media platform”.
