Among them, Grégory Doucet. The mayor of Lyon was already less present on the platform, favoring LinkedIn or Facebook for his reactions and announcements.
“Since the purchase of the platform in 2022 by Elon Musk, it is obvious that the rules have changed. The promise of direct, unhindered speech between citizens is no longer kept. No, it is now the law of the strongest who governs this social network. The fiercest communities reign supreme, favored by an arbitrary and uninhibited algorithm. And I'm not even talking about daily violence, unpunished calls for hatred and defamatory artificial intelligence.”complains the environmentalist councilor.
Grégory Doucet, however, does not delete his account, but promises not to log in again.
And it tends to promise the same outcome to other social networks: “Of course, I am aware of Mark Zuckerberg's recent allegiance to the Trump-Musk method. This change of heart by the boss of Meta does not bode well for the platforms such as Instagram or Facebook”.
-The mayor of Lyon not only leaves X in his name, he also closes the account of the City of Lyon. The latter will no longer tweet, “with the exception of general public crisis communication”.
“We are experiencing a tipping point for our democracies. In a short time, stories that seemed phantasmagorical to us are interfering in everyday discussions. Everyone can see it: words are more than ever weapons ready to make us waver. Faced with these tangible threats, the European Union can and must take advantage of the tools to legislate. This is the only solution to guarantee freedom of expression and protect the right to information.concludes Grégory Doucet.
Other elected officials from the city announced that they were part of this Monday's exodus. Like the PS mayor of Villeurbanne Cédric Van Styvendael.
