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November 15 – German membership St. Pauli has introduced it’s leaving social media platform X, saying it has develop into a “hate machine” that would affect upcoming German elections.
The Hamburg membership has develop into the primary main outfit and the primary Bundesliga membership to depart the platform previously known as Twitter and owned by far-right billionaire Elon Musk. St Pauli has made the change to Bluesky, a social media platform having fun with a serious surge in new customers following the US elections. The left-leaning cult soccer membership additionally inspired its followers to enroll to Bluesky.
“The rationale for the withdrawal: proprietor Elon Musk has turned a room for debate into an amplifier of hate that may additionally affect the German federal election marketing campaign,” mentioned St. Pauli mentioned in an announcement.
“Since Musk took over Twitter … he has turned X right into a hate machine. Racism and conspiracy theories unfold unhindered or are even curated. Insults and threats are barely sanctioned and bought as supposed freedom of expression.”
“As well as, after his election victory, Donald Trump introduced that he would make Musk the pinnacle of a newly created company. Musk had already actively supported Trump in the course of the election marketing campaign, additionally with the assistance of X. It may be assumed that X can even promote authoritarian, misanthropic and right-wing extremist content material within the federal election marketing campaign and thus manipulate public discourse.”
By Wednesday night, St Pauli’s account on Bluesky counted just below 10,000 followers. The platform has crossed the mark of 15 million customers. The New York Occasions wrote that for the reason that US elections Bluesky has added a million customers. The Guardian mentioned that it’ll now not publish on X, calling it “poisonous media platform”.
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