Anne Hidalgo, whose opponents have used the platform to criticise her, citied disinformation and antisemitism as reasons for leaving
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.
After buying Twitter in 2022, the billionaire 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 has been criticised, including by the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.
“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.
Kind of offensive to sewers
It’s like this for a long time
It was a sewer before Elon. Only when she gets called out via a hashtag, now it’s the reason to leave? Ok. Sounds legit.
Even Stevie Wonder could see that the situation with Twitter before Musk’s takeover isn’t even remotely comparable to today’s X.
The Twitter of yore had its problems, sure, but it acknowledged them as problems and did things to tackle it. X made those problems the whole point of the site, and threw on a shit ton more.
To use the old words: “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature”
Its our sewer though.
Or was our sewer, though
Twitter with Tweetdeck was a wonderful means of following the news using the List feature. It still works if you use lists but without Tweetdeck it isn’t as useful.
That said, I barely even use the app anymore. I used to be able to only see what I wanted to see, now Elon is forcing right wing propaganda on everyone.
Huge fan of Hidalgo with her leadership on transforming Paris to a sustainable city. Nice to see someone taking climate change seriously.
It’s about 13 months past time
Right? I mean, i’ll take the win, absolutely, but c’mon. Anybody still on Xitter - stop. Just stop.
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I’m just happy Paris elected someone from the socialist party, even if she is a secret liberal.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.
“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.
“Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies,” she added.
Hidalgo’s campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her 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.
“This medium has become a gigantic global sewer, and we should continue to wade into it?” said the Socialist politician, whose failed bid for the French presidency garnered 1.7% of the vote in 2022.
More recently, Hidalgo 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.
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Twitter+ X = Xitter.
Pronounced as “shitter”
Works well, since “tweets” have been rebranded as “X-crement”
I will still call them twats
That’s the userbase.
Ha! Thank you
The global town
squarelatrine.It always was. Wonder why certain people are just now seeing it? Hmm.
Why don’t you just say what you are implying?
How long will we continue to get news stories whenever a minor entity leaves X (formerly Twitter)?
As long as no minor or major public figures are remaining for leaving Twitterix.
Xitter
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And they know a thing or two about sewers in Paris!
Which one, the one under the Seine or the one above it?
Seine is the river through Paris.
They were calling the city itself a sewer.
The comment I replied to initially said “Rhine”.
Fair enough.
