“The usefulness of our presence weighs less than the numerous side effects suffered,” considers the director of the daily, who underlines the proximity of the owner of the ex-Twitter, Elon Musk, with Donald Trump.
Published on 20/01/2025 16:23
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The leading newspaper is following in the footsteps of other media. The French daily The World announced Monday January 20 that he was leaving X due to “the intensification of activism” of his boss Elon Musk, close to Donald Trump, and of “the growing toxicity of exchanges” on this social network. A decision announced on the day of the inauguration of the new president of the United States.
-“We will also redouble our vigilance on several other platforms, in particular TikTok and those of Meta, after the worrying statements from Mark Zuckerberg”who moved closer to the positions of the American president inaugurated on Monday, writes the director of Monde Jérôme Fenoglio in an editorial.
Sur X (ex-Twitter), “the usefulness of our presence weighs less than the numerous side effects suffered”he considers. Elon Musk, who bought the network in 2022, has according to him transformed the network “as an extension of his political action, a libertarianism increasingly close to the extreme right, as an instrument of pressure that he wants to exert on his competitors or on European social democratic governments”.
“This mixture of ideology and commerce has continued to make Le Monde increasingly invisible, like most other traditional media”notes Jérôme Fenoglio, emphasizing that, for more than a year already, the editorial publications on “au strict minimum”. From now on, the sharing of content on the network will be interrupted, “as long as it works this way”. The director recommends to journalists Monde to do the same.
