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.
    • supimacat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      X is like a clogged sewer just backing up with garbage until one day when it will explode violently. it’ll be so much fun to watch

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    Elon: Oh yeah? Well, I’m a free-speech absolutist! So, I’m banning all of France from Twi… I mean X!

    • HikingVet@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Pretty sure the Mayor of Paris was referring to twitter. Lots of context clues in there.

      • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        Oh yeah?! Prove it! I won’t read that either!

        ETA: I hope I didn’t actually offend you, I was just trying to continue my joke by doubling down on ignorance. Love your photography, btw

      • rodolfo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        10 months ago

        I think she knows Paris better than Twitter. Anyway, I’d agree with her nonetheless.

    • Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Sewerage fulfills an important function and not all are created equal.

      I get crapping on social media, but let’s have an honest discussion involving its merits and drawbacks so that it can become better.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    10 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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