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.

  • books@lemmy.worldEnglish
    548·
    11 months ago

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

    /Badumtiss

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      11 months ago

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

    • the_ocs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      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.

  • mtchristo@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    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

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    122·
    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
      161·
      11 months ago

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

  • Kazumara@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    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
    4·
    11 months ago

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

  • satan@r.nfEnglish
    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
    21·
    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.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    This is our world, these are the morons we inhabit it with.

    X is (very stupidly) unregulated in all things that aren’t talking shit about Musk, but that just means that we get a daily dosage of “raw humanity” and we don’t like it because it’s fucking gross. Most social media companies know this and sanitize it for us to enjoy. X is like walking down the street in some really depressed town where drug addicts and weirdos are running around naked shouting at “the man in the wires who tells me to mate with Barny.”

    people suck (mostly) lol