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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X



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23 comments

  1. What still amazes me is that Governments and the EU still use this platform as main communication method…

  2. > The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from January 20th, 2025, when Donald Trump will officially become the 47th president of the United States.

    > The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda”.

    > It joins The Guardian and other European media outlets including Dagens Nyheter, La Vanguardia, Ouest-France and Sud-Ouest in coming off the platform, due to the impact of Musk on the organisation.

    > The EFJ is the largest organisation of journalists in Europe, representing over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries has announced that it will stop posting content on X.

    > The company’s general secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez stated:

    > “After the US elections, EFJ pointed out the threat to democracy and freedom of expression posed by the cooperation between the president of the most powerful country in the world, Donald J. Trump, and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, who is also the owner of social network X and has been appointed to lead a “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) when Donald J. Trump takes office as president on January 20, 2025.

    > “We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists”, said the president of EFJ, Maja Sever.

    > “The social media site X has become the preferred vector for conspiracy theories, racism, far-right ideas and misogynistic rhetoric. X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies”, he writes further.

    > “The editorial evolution of X, since its acquisition by Elon Musk, is simply contrary to our humanist values, our commitment to press freedom and media pluralism, and our fight against all forms of hatred and discrimination. The decision to suspend our @EFJEUROPE account seemed clear to us and we invite all our members and all organizations defending freedom of expression to migrate to other platforms.”

  3. Are those actual journalists or those clickbait “journalists” copying everything from DPA or other agencies and just put it on their websites?

  4. Does the loud and political world only consist of either snowflakes or bullies? I feel the divide only getting bigger… in a time where it should not.

  6. This is what unions are for. Collective decisions

  7. Journalists are irrelevant

    If you disagree, please tell me the last time an interview of a presidential candidate got as many views as the Rogan interview with Trump

  9. Good news, fuck the fifth column (musk and trump etc)

  10. Or just ban it.

    That is a social engineering weapon to destroy european democracies.

  11. Mass emigration to new sites should happen more often so that big players think twice before screwing up everything

  12. What if everyone would delete their twitter account…40 billions loss to Musk . Already deleted mine a week ago,no more toxic propaganda

  14. With or without journalists Twitter is the fastest place you can get the latest news and none of the traditional media is even close.

  16. It’s only propaganda when you see something you don’t like. X offers the only place where EVERYONE can say whatever they want without censorship , which was the case with the old Twitter, which was proven in Congress.

  18. Let me guess, they’ve created blue waffle accounts?

  20. Musk’s lawyers preparing 295000 lawsuits at this very moment.

  22. Because they don’t like being fact checked by community notes?

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