Le Monde pulls out of X due to ‘increasing toxicity of conversations’ between users

French newspaper Le Monde announced today that it will stop publishing its content on the X platform due to the “intensification of activism” of its owner, Elon Musk, and the “increasing toxicity of conversations” between users. “We will also step up our vigilance on many other platforms, notably TikTok and those of the Meta group, following the alarming statements of Mark Zuckerberg,” who has ideologically aligned himself with Republican US President-elect Donald Trump, Le director said. Monde Jerome Fenolio in the main article of the vigilance. Musk, who bought the former Twitter in 2022, transformed it “into an extension of his political activism, a libertarianism that is increasingly approaching the extreme right, an instrument of the pressure he wants to exert on his competitors or on European social democratic governments,” he added . “This mixture of ideology and commerce increasingly obscured Le Monde like most other traditional media,” he stressed, underlining that here and above […]
Source: News Beast

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