November 19 – Following within the footsteps of St Pauli, Werder Bremen have turn into the second Bundesliga membership to depart X for Bluesky, calling out the “latest radicalisation” of the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter.
In a press release, Bremen defined that “with the latest radicalisation of the platform, a line has been crossed for the membership” and moved to Bluesky, urging their 600,000 followers on X to do the identical.
The membership wrote: “Since Elon Musk took over the platform, hate speech, hatred in direction of minorities, right-wing extremist posts and conspiracy theories have been allowed to unfold at an unbelievable tempo, all below the guise of freedom of speech. The radicalisation of the platform is being actively pushed by Elon Musk and his private posts, which embody transphobic and antisemitic feedback, in addition to the spreading of conspiracy narratives.
“Subsequent to nothing is at present being monitored on the platform. The algorithms and resolution making at X are totally non-transparent processes. Moreover, Elon Musk is utilising the social community as a political weapon, as seen not too long ago through the course of the US election.”
“SV Werder Bremen are taking a transparent stance in opposition to hatred, hate speech, discrimination and exclusion.”
Final week, St Pauli grew to become the primary main membership to exit X, calling the platform “a hate machine” and citing the unfold of “racism and conspiracy theories…insults and threats”.
The left-leaning membership from Hamburg said that such hate may affect the elections in Germany.
St Pauli has 18,000 followers on Blueksy, which has seen a significant surge in new members and energetic day by day customers for the reason that election of Donald Trump as US president. On Tuesday morning, Werder Bremen had 5,200 followers on Bluesky.
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