- cross-posted to:
- france
- cross-posted to:
- france
French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.
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French are using Twitter a lot. Even people that are considered pretty far to the left. I’ve tried to discuss this with a few french connections I have and it’s always “but that’s where the people are”…
Slaves to fashion
Pathetic that this is the first. Get your shit together French news outlets.
It’s insane that so many places chose and are still choosing to stay and keep court at this place.
I can’t believe these giant companies put profit over morals. It just doesn’t make sense!
We’ll see how profitable it really was in the long run, but short term profits seem to blind most corporations which is practically and fiscally foolish.
They obviously still get the clicks to justify the cost of advertising or they wouldn’t do it. If one of them fails in a decade, no one is going to look back and say it was because they didn’t leave Twitter when Elmo bought it…
Took em long enough
Interesting, I think they legitimately don’t know what they’ll do instead:
“Strictly speaking, there are no alternatives to what X offers today,” Vincent Berthier, head of the technology department at RSF (Reporters Without Borders) told AFP.
“But we may need to invent them.”
I imagine they’ll end up on Bluesky, possibly also on Mastodon?
Honestly, for big orgs like that I feel like a federating their website just makes sense to me.
That way they can host the content (resilience to censor ship) and can still natively share it.
X the everything (except the guardian, ouest-france etc.) app
Wait, all others still do?
Doubt it
Here, a baguette : ##########
That’s a centipede.
How dare you, it identifies as a baguette
