What is the star of the NBA LeBron James, the emblematic horror Stephen King and the left British newspaper The Guardian in common? All abandoned X, the social network in the past known as Twitter, since Donald Trump’s electoral victory in November 2024. And they are far from being the only ones. On Friday, more than 60 German language universities announced that they would no longer use X.

Generated through the richest defender of the world of Trump, Elon Musk, the network is shame with users outside the political field of Maga and, despite the multimillionaire commitment in 2022 to maintain the “politically neutral” platform, many observers that He is actively running to remodel X in an extremist megaphone.

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The mavens consulted through DW said that there was no way to say reliably if the formula has been updated to develop correct publications since the era of the musk began, because their algorithms constantly change and respond to a mutation user base . However, it is clear that many prohibited accounts have been restored under musk despite past violations, adding hatred, misinformation and anti -Semitism. Experts also emphasize that global discourse will continue to advance to the right as the most liberal users and left -wing users leave the platform.

“The result for users is the same as the cause: much more excessive content on the platform and in the flows of people,” said Colin Henry, media social researcher, Colin Henryarray

Musk also used his maximum narrative prestige followed in X to magnify Pro-Trump’s voices and stories in the US elections, even calling himself a “first boyfriend” of Trump.

After having taken the policy perspective with the European Union, Musk told his more than 211 million fans that Foreign Minister Gerguy Olaf Scholz is a “fool”, and President Frank -walter Steinmeier, a guy whose place of work is basically ceremonial, it is a “tyrant. ” “Musk has also publicly approved the nationalist election for Gerguyy (AFD), saying that it is the only component that can simply” save Gerguyy “. Thursday, Musk discussed live in X with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of AFD and candidate for the chancellor in the next elections in Gerguyy.

Musk for Trump and the interference existing in EU’s policy have caused outrage in Germany. However, Musk’s messages woke up a little more than Scholz’s fingers car, which said his technique was simple: “Not feeding to the troll. “

“It is the will of citizens who tell in Germany, the erratic statements of an American billionaire,” Stern magazine told Stern.

Science fiction and Internet activist, Cory Doctorow, told DW that Musk already exerts enough strength to influence the vote in narrow races. This influence is partly due to the fact that the media idolize it as “a type of hero” for many years, said Doctorow.

Doctorow said that Musk’s increase is a foreseeable result of the effort of the decade to dismant great to worry about what someone thinks of him.

And, Scholz tried to avoid worrying about Musk, Doctorow said he publicly opposed someone who “has a giant audience” can really be a wonderful political strategy for the German chancellor.

“The musk is very intelligent,” said Doctorow. “It has many followers. Many of them know a lot about it: they just absorb the legend, and you can demystify the legend in a genuine time if you are intelligent in this area. “

“However, if you suck it, the last thing you need is to be humiliated in front of two hundred million people.

On Wednesday, Gerguy’s anti-discrimination commissioner, Ferda Ataguy, suggested the government to leave X, qualifying the network “a tool of political influence through the richest type in the world. “

“X is a serious platform,” said Ataman.

Several upper level organizations and users in Germany have already left X, adding the highest crook court in the country on Thursday.   Fabian Mehring, the richest state of the Minister of Digitalization of Germany, Bavaria, left X in the musk to AFD.   The former Secretary of the State of Berlin, Sawsan Chebli, moved away from the Net Place of censorship, racism, anti -Semitism and right wing agenda and right wing. “

A documentation of Nazi crimes in the middle in Munich and the Jewish museum of the city also has to avoid the use of the platform, as well as dozens of other semi -official and non -governmental bodies, adding 3 soccer groups of the Bundesliga.

In response to this week’s calls to leave X, German officials said the government did not have to do it for the moment.

“We have to be where other people will obtain information,” journalists said, government spokesman. “But, of course, you will have to ask if the environment is durable, and we ask each other this question. Until now, we have answered the advantages. “

Henry, the American social science specialist, said that politicians who were not aligned with the right temporarily disappeared in X anyway.

“The public has gone, or, when managers have to data in a genuine time during, for example, a herbal disaster, drown through conspiracy theories or hate speeches,” said Henry.

Given the data that Musk is to interfere with the elections, Hébestreit said that even multimillians have the right to explain themselves.

“At the same time, it is also true that the multiple miliaros are smarter or more competent than others. They can also speak nonsense,” he said. “If you look around the X platform in recent days, you will locate many indications. “

Posted by: Milan Gagnon