French movement asks X users to leave platform on US inauguration day

https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/01/15/french-group-encourages-mass-departure-from-elon-musks-x-platform-on-us-inauguration-day

by euronews-english

27 comments

  1. Everybody hates Musk and his toy platform 😆😆

  3. Got rid of my account yesterday. Not that it’d seen much use, but I definitely was a spectator to the platform becoming worse and worse over the years.

  7. X is just MusKKK’s private diary where he just posts shit depending on the level of Ketamine in his body at a given time.

    The sooner we leave this cesspool of hate, bigotry and hypocrites the better it is for everyone’s mental health.

  11. I’m not from france but I’ll join them. I don’t use my account anyway, and it will send a mini-statement.

  17. I opened twitter one time , a rumor that Dudley would be on Streer fighter 4 .

    But if I had an account I would be out of it already anyway

  18. Well done, France 🇫🇷👏More should follow! And, Europe should create its own platform with servers in Europe.

  19. Why wait to inauguration day, Musk has never been elected for office and certainly not for president. Although I think that he might disagree on that point as he has bought the government.

  20. The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X, formerly Twitter, on January 20.

    A group of French organisations are asking the public to leave X on January 20th, the day that incoming US President Donald Trump will be inaugurated.

    The French Human Rights League (LDH) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) cofounded the collective “HelloQuitteX,” which is now supported by a group of 86 unions and organisations that pledge to no longer post any content on X because the algorithms “favour the proliferation of hateful content and conspiracy theories,” according to a press release on their [**website**](https://www.ldh-france.org/la-ldh-et-86-associations-et-syndicats-quittent-x-afin-de-poursuivre-la-bataille-des-idees-dans-la-dignite/)**.** 

    The platform, the coalition says, has also been the scene of “cyberharassment campaigns” by the far right in countries like France and the United States. 

    “By leaving X, we are well aware of depriving ourselves of a communication channel to promote our actions,” the coalition said in [**the French newspaper Le Monde**](https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/01/14/en-quittant-x-nous-avons-bien-conscience-de-nous-priver-d-un-canal-de-communication-pour-valoriser-nos-actions-nos-combats_6497667_3232.html)**.**

    “But this tool …  has become a serious danger”.

    The collective accuses X owner Elon Musk of “manipulating the conditions of public debate” away from human rights and equality, the statement continues. 

    Their statement asks anyone who shares the LDH’s view of “advocating for digital spaces that respect … the protection of pluralism, respectful date and reason” to partake in this “fundamental mobilisation for democracy,” by boycotting X and joining them instead on Mastodon or Bluesky. 

  22. great idea. years ago I did a twitter account but never used it and will cancel it on inauguration day. (Good that I keep logins/passwords in a file.. for the crap/disposable stuff)

  23. I’m toying with the idea of getting rid of my account. It’s pure poison propaganda by Musk, MAGA and people posting downright hateful lies.

    The final straw was posts about Ukrainian firefighters offering to help with LA wildfires and the comments by MAGA head cases were utter poison, that and the Ivermectin nonsense started by Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson. Twitter is an absolute sewer.

  24. Correction : Only leftists and mainstream media (synonyms?) because they are terrified of Community Notes.

  25. There was a thread sharing EU alternatives to US stuff. Seems to have gotten deleted though, but I’m sure we have an EU Twitter out there.

  26. Deleted that shit account a year ago. My life is so much better right now

  27. I am happy I never had an account on Xitter. Also the whole renaming to X shows how silly Elon is. Before Elon was kicked out from PayPal for incompetence, it was called X. Elon is obsessed with the name X.

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