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More than 80 associations, including The Human Rights League, France Terre d'Asile and Emmaüs France, announced, in a column published Wednesday, their departure on January 20 from the social network “a serious danger”.
“By leaving the environment, public liberties and freedom of the press.
“But this tool, which could be understood as a new space for freedom of expression in its beginnings, has become a serious danger for it and for respect for the dignity of people”, underline Cimade, France Nature Environnement, Greenpeace France or APF France Handicap in an article published in Le Monde.
“the absence of moderation and the configuration of algorithms”
In their sights, “the absence of moderation and the configuration of algorithms” which “promote the proliferation of hateful content and the circulation of conspiracy and climate skeptic theories”.
Why do people leave Twitter/X?
The organizations, which invite “all those who are interested in their fights” to “leave X as massively as possible”, specify that they will continue to communicate via other social networks, in particular Bluesky and Mastodon.
CFDT, Ouest-France, Mediapart…
Announcements of departure from
In France, this is the case of the CFDT, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris – which brings together 38 Parisian hospitals -, Ouest France, Mediapart and the Caen Memorial.
In Europe, more than sixty German and Austrian universities announced their withdrawal on January 10, expressing concern about the anti-democratic excesses of this platform.
Faced with accusations of spreading false information and not allocating sufficient resources to moderate exchanges on the platform, Elon Musk defends a radical vision of freedom of expression and rejects all forms of censorship.
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