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Le Monde, one of France's leading newspapers, announced its departure from Elon Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter), citing concerns over increasing toxicity and political bias.

Editor-in-chief Jérôme Fenoglio criticized Musk's alignment with Donald Trump and other tech leaders, which he claims threatens free access to reliable information.

Le Monde had already reduced its X activity but now sees the negatives of remaining outweighing the benefits.

The paper also expressed concern over platforms like TikTok and Meta due to recent political moves by their leaders.

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A little late on that one guys.

Any government organizations outside the US needs to be called out on this shit now. After what happened yesterday there's no ambiguity to a sane person.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, after yesterday being on X is like saying you´re publishing in the Swastika Sentinel.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The thing is I wouldn't know if they're on twitter, because I'm not on twitter.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

Let's hope this is the first of many dominoes. If the BBC quit Twitter I think it would set off a mass exodus.