The environmentalist mayor of Lyon denounces on the social network X “daily violence, unpunished calls for hatred and defamatory artificial intelligence”.
The environmentalist mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet announced Monday, the day of Donald Trump's inauguration at the White House, his departure from Elon Musk's social network “driven to weaken our democracies”. After the Paris town hall, the Brittany or Grand Est regions and dozens of elected officials or associations, the mayor of the third largest city in France launches “goodbye x” in a message broadcast on other social networks, including Facebook and Instagram of Mark Zuckerberg's American group Meta.
“Since the purchase of the platform in 2022 by Elon Musk, it is obvious that the rules have changed”explains the councilor for whom “it is now the law of the strongest that governs” the social network. “The fiercest communities reign supreme, favored by an arbitrary and uninhibited algorithm”adds Grégory Doucet denouncing “daily violence, unpunished calls for hatred and defamatory artificial intelligence”.
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“This change of heart from Meta’s boss does not bode well”
The mayor of Lyon, whose account is “now inactive” more “not deleted” to prevent him from being able to “be used without your knowledge”, “is aware of nothing of the recent allegiance of Mark Zuckerberg to the Trump-Musk method”. “This change of heart from the boss of Meta does not bode well for the platforms that are Instagram or Facebook”concludes the elected official, who also closes the account X of the City of Lyon “with the exception of general public crisis communication”.
Institutions, ministries, cities, media, public figures… In recent weeks, announcements of departures from the social network for similar reasons have multiplied around the world. In France, this is notably the case of the Pasteur Institute, the Human Rights League, Emmaüs, but also the town halls of Strasbourg and Bordeaux.
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