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The city of Paris has quit the platform X over concerns about disinformation and hate speech.
The PR account’s exit comes at the same time as French President Emmanuel Macron is pushing for X owner Elon Musk and United States President-elect Donald Trump to attend Paris’ flagship artificial intelligence summit next month.
In a farewell post, the account wrote that it had become “complex” and then “impossible” to use the platform.
“Complex because the network reduces the reach of factual and objective messages. Impossible because the network fuels hate speech and disinformation, whose lack of moderation has become problematic,” it said.
“It’s a difficult but essential decision to restore a society based on peaceful spaces of expression,” the statement continued, promoting its Bluesky account.
“More than ever, Paris is attached to facts and the veracity of information.”
The account for Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo already left the platform at the end of 2023, calling the site a “weapon of mass destruction of our democracies.”
Musk bought X, formerly Twitter, in 2022.
“This platform and its owner deliberately act to exacerbate tensions and conflicts … Let’s not be mistaken. This is a very clear political project that wants to abandon democracy and its values for powerful private interests,” Hidalgo wrote in her last post.
Musk is facing mainstream political backlash in Europe after wading into domestic politics in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Macron and the billionaire tech mogul have enjoyed cordial relations in the past, with Musk joining Trump at last month’s reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral and donating 100 Starlink terminals to the cyclone-ravaged French overseas territory of Mayotte.
Last week, however, the French president took a not-so-thinly veiled swipe at the SpaceX boss, accusing him of meddling in European politics and backing what the French president called a “reactionary movement” across the world.
