The Swedish public radio Sveriges Radio (SR) announced on Tuesday the end of its activities on Twitter, after similar decisions in the United States and Canada due to the controversial decisions of Elon Musk’s social network.
“Sveriges Radio has downgraded its presence on Twitter for some time now and we have now made the decision to stop being active on the platform altogether, as well as remove a number of accounts,” the most listened to group said on its blog. of antennas in the Nordic country.
Last week, US public radio NPR became the first major media outlet to leave Twitter in protest of the network’s new policy, bought by billionaire Elon Musk in October for $44 billion.
Domino effect?
On Monday, the public media group CBC/Radio-Canada had done the same following the decision of Elon Musk’s platform to put the label “government-funded media”, deploring an attack on its “independence” through a “misleading” message. label.
However, Swedish public radio, whose main account is labeled “publicly funded media”, did not protest the point, considering it a “correct definition” of RS funding.
Both radio and Swedish public television (SVT) are 100% public.
The departure of the main media from the Twitter platform occurs in the context of the establishment of a controversial new certification policy, the network since April 20 grants its famous blue mark to those who will pay to take advantage of it.
At the beginning of April, it withdrew this brand from the main account of the US newspaper The New York Times (55 million subscribers), in another gesture of defiance towards a respected medium but considered too left-wing by some conservatives.
Since he bought the firm from the blue bird, Elon Musk has also relaxed the moderation of content on the network, leaving behind many users banned for messages that incite hatred or fall into misinformation. It also laid off heavily, reducing the group’s workforce from 7,500 to fewer than 2,000 employees.
Source: BFM TV
