Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia quits ‘disinformation network’ X

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/spanish-newspaper-la-vanguardia-quits-disinformation-network-x

by Wagamaga

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  1. Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia has announced it will stop publishing its content on social media platform X, which it said had become a “disinformation network”.

    The social media giant, owned by Elon Musk, has become “an echo chamber” for “conspiracy theories and misinformation” whose reach multiplies due to the lack of effective moderation, the Barcelona-based newspaper said on Thursday

  2. I hope the EU will regulate this crappy platform. I only use it because there is still a lot of useful information about the Ukraine war from trustworthy OSINT pages.

  5. Chain reaction started, I see. Will we see them join BlueSky and Mastodon too?

  7. Yesterday ‘the guardian’ today ‘la vanguardia’.

  8. The exodus will be a paltry win since the dude is basically the First Lady now, but I’ll take the small wins as they come. Lord knows we’ll need them.

  9. All non-right wing media should move to Blue Sky.

    A precedent needs to be set for far-right oligarchs like Musk, that their presence in the public dialogue, much less their control of it, is not accepted and tolerated.

  10. Maybe the last good news outlet left in the whole country. Good for them.

  11. In my life I haven’t found a single real person using Twitter yet and that’s interesting because I’m not 7

  12. National and local government bodies should also stop using X for announcements.

    It’s counter productive to have public information messaging surrounded by disinformation.

    If that was not already blindingly obvious during Covid.

  14. Is this actually happening? An across-the-aisle move to leave Twitter ?

  15. A bit late. X has already absolved its purpose and let Trump and Musk in the Whitehouse. They should have left when Musk took over with Saudis, Russians and Chinese money

  16. X-odus is gathering pace. I hope more follow suite.

  19. The cover photo is quite interesting, there’s a left-wing leaflet over the newspaper and a rock on top of the leaflet.

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