By AFP - Agence France Presse
Greenpeace is among the Spanish environmental NGOs that have abandoned X
Spanish environmental organizations, including Greenpeace Spain, as well as university rectors, said on Friday that they would stop using X, adding to the exodus from Elon Musk's social media platform.
Several institutions turned their backs on the former Twitter after the world's richest person used X to promote Donald Trump's successful bid for the US presidency and clashed with European governments.
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Ecologists in Action said they were among “hundreds of organizations, groups, journalists' associations and thousands of people” who abandoned X on January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration.
Musk has made X “a danger to democracy” by promoting speeches “based on the ideas of the extreme right” and has interfered in elections in other countries, such as Germany, they said in a joint statement.
“The constant generation of fake news” and the growing ‘toxicity’ also alienated the organizations from X, which they said was silencing voices opposed to Musk's ideas.
The Spanish University Rectors' Conference announced that it would stop posting on X, also citing concerns about disinformation, as well as “behavior that diverges from democratic values” and “unethical management”.
Musk has eliminated trust and security teams, reduced content moderation, and restored known conspiracy theorists to X since buying it for $44 billion in 2022.
Musk has described himself as a “free speech absolutist” with a permissive attitude towards content and defended the mass layoffs by pointing to the company's financial difficulties.
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