“Staying on X partly supports what the platform has become under Elon Musk.” The environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau wrote a letter this Sunday, January 12, to the deputies of the New Popular Front, of which she is a part, to ask them to abandon or at least stop using the social network X.
A few days before Donald Trump and, therefore, Elon Musk take power, appointed head of a future “ministry of government efficiency”, Sandrine Rousseau estimated that “X has become a true disinformation machine, a weapon of destruction of factual reality and the echo chamber. of extreme right-wing currents.”
“Today, Elon Musk’s leadership represents a real danger to our democracies,” he also wrote, referring in particular to the importance of X during the US presidential elections or Elon Musk’s recent support for far-right parties in Germany. or the United Kingdom.
“No more alternative discourse”
The elected representative of Paris sent an appeal to left-wing deputies, considering that they should leave. Therefore, he proposed doing so “on a date to be determined.”
An idea shared by the head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, who stated this Sunday on BFMTV that he “raised the question” of abandoning the social network. He considered “that we should all start together from X and not try to leave one after the other.”
“What bothers me is that if we abandon the social network and leave it only in the hands of the extreme right and people in good faith continue to believe that that is where it happens, they will no longer have other words,” however, he moderated.
“Destabilize the next elections”
The same goes for Marine Tondelier, who indicated on RTL that leaving the platform is “a debate that we have every day in the leadership of my party.” The leader of the Ecologists estimated “that if I leave one network alone, it really has no impact. If the entire PFN does it, then yes, it does,” and added:
“It’s not just me, we all have to leave (Twitter).”
According to Marine Tondelier, X should even be “banned in Europe.” However, he admits that, despite everything, the social network “will continue to have an impact on reality” and “will contribute to destabilizing the next elections.” “We must act strongly to protect our democracy and the information in our territory,” he said while Meta (Instagram and Facebook in particular) suffered a major setback in its content moderation and information verification policy following a decision by its owner Mark Zuckerberg. .
The LFI deputy, Éric Coquerel, stated in LCI that he decided “for the moment” to stay in the world.
Several political figures have already left more since their rapprochement with Donald Trump.
Source: BFM TV
