Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'
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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation.

Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’::Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that was “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    562·
    11 months ago

    The EU has set a great example on Mastodon for how it should be used. They host the server and the people who work for the EU can be verified by simply having an account.

    • the_ocs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      This is how it should be for any agency or organisation, public or private.

      The model of everyone using Twitter/Facebook is practically the same as if everyone used gmail.com as their mail domain.

  • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
    619·
    11 months ago

    And she would know what a sewer is because she governs Paris.

    /Badumtiss

        • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Except on a few neighborhoods (I’m pretty sure it’s the wealthy ones) there is not so much poop anymore. 15 years ago it was actually very anoying, you couldn’t walk without co stantly scanning the floor, which would be extremely anoying now that people what to use their phone while walking.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        It really isn’t lol. It might be the dirtiest capital city I’ve been to. Although I won’t claim to be the most travelled man in the world.

        Still a pretty place, mind you. But the shit and the rats let the place down a bit.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Supposedly they’re actually working on upgrading the system

        So it should be improving soon even if it isn’t already

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      11 months ago

      Not only have you been faster with the comment, you have also been upvoted a ton already.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    152·
    11 months ago

    NOW she thinks it’s a sewer, but she’s ignored all the BS that was always there?

    It’s always been a sewer.

    • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, but it used to have marginal treatment facilities. Elon trashed those and sold them for scrap.

  • mtchristo@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    She is just running away from a scandal of her using public funds for a holiday while in a mission in French Polynesia. Now she is turning that into a statement

  • Kazumara@feddit.deEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Isn’t she the one with the big sewer improvement project to stop flooding the Seine with poop water whenever it storms? She must be basically an expert on sewers among politicians by now, so I’ll trust that assessment.

  • op12@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    Old and busted: Twitter is the global town square
    New hotness: X is the global town sewer

  • satan@r.nf
    English
    3·
    11 months ago

    I mean it was fine until social media companies knowingly were causing genocide and destroying democracies in Asia, South America and Africa.

    But now it’s in your face,

    “I don’t like this. 😭”

  • ASaltPepper@lemmy.oneEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    I’m curious to see where politicians end up after ditching X. I want to believe that governments could set up their own lemmy/bluesky instances. But my gut is telling me Meta owned platforms will win out due to ease of use and their ability to comply with local European laws.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform.

    Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and was blasted by critics, including the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

    “This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts,” Hidalgo said in lengthy posts in English and French, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

    Hidalgo’s campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her both scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.

    More recently, she has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.

    X users and opposition politicians took to the #TahitiGate hashtag to lambast her over the partially taxpayer-funded trip.

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