The French branch of the famous nature conservation organization announced its departure from X both on its official website and in a long post on the platform owned by the world's richest man.
Greenpeace France does not want such an atmosphere
“While no social network is perfect, X has now reached unprecedented levels of toxicity: lack of moderation, spread of hate speech and climate skepticism, promotion of extremist content by algorithms […]” – explained the reasons for this step, the director general of Greenpeace France, Jean-François Julliard, in a statement posted on the organization's website.
A representative of Greenpeace France added that his organization “cannot feed a platform that favors disinformation [i] climate skepticism.
“It's too much. In the face of algorithms promoting the most extreme positions, striving for arguments and digital harassment dWe are planning to leave” – wrote representatives of the organization on the X website.
However, your account on this site will remain active to prevent identity theft. At the same time, France's Greenpeace assured that it will remain active on other social media platforms such as Facebook, InstagramLinkedIn i Threads and did not rule out opening an account on the platform Bluesky.
This is not the first brand that has recently decided to leave the platform it owns Elon Musk.
It's not just the French Greenpeace that has had enough
On November 13, the famous British media website announced its resignation from the platform.Guardian” Medium then announced that it would no longer publish official posts on X.
The reason given for this decision was that “the negatives outweigh the positives related to being on the platform once known as Twitter,” the site hosts “often disturbing content.”
At the time of his resignation, the Guardian had 80 accounts on X, with a total of approximately 27 million followers.
Elon Musk in jego X
The owner of the website X is widely considered to be the richest man in the world Elon Musk. Forbes currently estimates his fortune at approximately USD 314 billion.
Elon Musk bought the social media platform Twitter in 2022. He then renamed it “X”. Since taking over the website, the billionaire has been accused of spreading disinformation and insufficient moderation.
This criticism intensified after the last presidential campaign United Statesin which he won Donald Trumpsupported by Musk and his medium. In response to the allegations, the billionaire claimed that the most important thing for him was freedom of speech and lack of censorship.
In the planned office of the future president USA Elon Musk, together with millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, is to head the newly created “Department of State Performance” (abbreviated: DOGE). It is to be an advisory body whose purpose will be to help Trump look for savings in the state administration.
Source: AFP, Greenpeace.fr, “The Guardian”, Forbes.com