PEOPLE – Moby joins the front against Elon Musk. This Tuesday, November 29, the musician The 57-year-old American announced that he has made a strong decision: he will end his business on Chirpinghowever, he has always been very active on social media since his registration in 2008.
« This will be my last tweetwrites the animal welfare advocate. Elon Musk shared an anti-Semitic meme used by the alt-right last night [terme désignant l’extrême droite américaine, ndlr]a fake story attributed to CNN, a picture of the guns on her nightstand. »
Adds : ” Twitter has become a cesspool of racism, anti-Semitism, misinformation, and far-right hate. And it’s time to leave it. »
Like him, other celebrities have made a similar decision, like the creator of Grey’s Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, actress Whoopi Goldberg or model Gigi Hadid. Some companies too. This is the case of Balenciaga. Rarer: In Slovenia, the ruling party did the same.
The return of “fake news” on Covid
Moby’s words come to us at a very divisive time. In recent days, Twitter has no longer enforced its rules on misleading information about Covid-19, we learned on Tuesday in a press release from the company.
Like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, during the pandemic, the microblogging platform had specific rules to combat “fake health news”. In particular, he had decided to report and remove messages containing misinformation on Covid vaccines, to then suspend the affected accounts after five warnings.
But now, Elon Musk, owner and head of the platform for a month, is advocating an absolute view of freedom of expression. However, the latter has never hidden his opinion on the health restrictions put in place during the pandemic, especially when they meant the temporary closure of his Tesla factory in California.
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