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The question had been on his mind for a while. A final outburst from the boss of the social network, Elon Musk, finally convinced him: overnight, the environmentalist vice-president of the National Assembly, Jérémie Iordanoff, simply deleted his X account (ex-Twitter) at the beginning January. “The debate on the platform is no longer on equal terms. Its owner intervenes in European policy to destabilize public freedoms”he justifies. Allusion to accusations of “interference” by the American billionaire in the German federal elections, where he openly supports the controversial far-right party AfD.

A new position which has awakened the temptations of digital exile on the benches of the left. Some, like former presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, have started a countdown before their announced departure on January 20, the date of Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony. At the forefront of which will appear his new ally, Elon Musk, propelled to the head of a tailor-made department of “governmental efficiency”. The opportunity for part of the left to mark the occasion, by slamming the door of the social network together.

Although very active on the platform, Sandrine Rousseau also tried to convince her colleagues from the New Popular Front (NFP) to join the collective rebellion – symbolized by the hashtag “#HelloQuitteX”, launched by French researchers. It doesn't matter if the social network – and in particular the parody account “Sardine Ruisseau” whose cyberharassment the elected official had denounced – contributed to building the notoriety of the ecologist, one of the most publicized in its ranks. “X has become a veritable disinformation machine. Stay there…