The Spanish daily La Vanguardia will no longer publish content on X, Elon Musk’s platform. According to the newspaper, this has become ‘a disinformation network’. The day before, the British daily The Guardian made a similar announcement.
‘The ex-Twitter makes messages that violate human rights go viral,’ accuses the Spanish newspaper based in Barcelona on Thursday in an editorial, in which it emphasizes that it will however continue to follow the accounts of personalities on the social network, of companies or 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 disregard 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 continues.
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Accusations
‘X has been filled since the arrival of Elon Musk with toxic content (…) in an increasingly marked way’, further criticizes 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 editor’s note), during which countless +bots+ of Indian origin took part in public debates on this social network,’ the daily further underlines.
‘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 earn more money from ads,’ he describes.
Already on Wednesday, The Guardian announced that it was leaving the social network, calling it a ‘toxic media platform’.
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