Summary

Le Monde, one of France’s leading newspapers, announced its departure from Elon Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter), citing concerns over increasing toxicity and political bias.

Editor-in-chief Jérôme Fenoglio criticized Musk’s alignment with Donald Trump and other tech leaders, which he claims threatens free access to reliable information.

Le Monde had already reduced its X activity but now sees the negatives of remaining outweighing the benefits.

The paper also expressed concern over platforms like TikTok and Meta due to recent political moves by their leaders.

  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    A little late on that one guys.

    Any government organizations outside the US needs to be called out on this shit now. After what happened yesterday there’s no ambiguity to a sane person.

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    11 hours ago

    Let’s hope this is the first of many dominoes. If the BBC quit Twitter I think it would set off a mass exodus.