Anne Hidalgo, whose opponents have used the platform to criticise her, citied disinformation and antisemitism as reasons for leaving
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.
After buying Twitter in 2022, the billionaire Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform. Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and has been criticised, including by the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.
“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.
I live like 30km from the French border and before 1957 I would have been French and then not and the French again and then not again. Does that count?
We all know cultures don’t follow maps. Culturally, are you essentially French?
We use a lot of French loanwords in our dialect like trottoir, chaise longue, parapluie. It’s generally more a connection to Alsace than to France itself. Food-wise, it’s more a mix of French and German but leaning more towards German.
What about efficiency of industry? Humour? Willingness to overthrow a bad government? Quality of local bread? Cheese? Sausages? Wine? Beer? Opinion of Roman culture (is it the pinnacle of greatness or were they just a bunch of losers that died in your forests that one time plus the other times?).