The newspaper ‘La Vanguardia’ has announced that it is closing its accounts on the social network “violates the minimum concepts of ethics or justice” that should be respected in a democratic society.
This is what the director of ‘La Vanguardia’, Jordi Juan, has expressed in a forum he published in the newspaper, which follows the steps taken this Wednesday by the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ by closing its profiles on the social network. denouncing that it has become a “toxic platform” at the service of its owner, Elon Musk.
Jordi Juan has explained that ‘La Vanguardia’ has decided to stop publishing tweets on
The director has pointed out that X’s account will be frozen and the newspaper will monitor “people, entities or companies that post content on this channel in order to continue informing its readers promptly.”
However, the journalist has defended that he made the decision “to not contribute with the traffic created by ‘La Vanguardia’ to the growth of this channel.” As reported, since Musk arrived at X, the social network “has been abusing more and more toxic content and manipulated thanks to the proliferation of bots.”
“The traditional moderation teams that avoided violent or hateful content have been disappearing and the network has entered into a drift that violates the minimum concepts of ethics or justice that we should respect in a democratic society,” reproached Jordi Juan, who has regretted that they are allowed “conspiracy theories” or spread of hoaxes or fake newswho “have found in X their perfect sounding board to be able to amplify them.”
The director has stressed that the electoral campaign or “the lies that have been spread” with the DANA of Valencia have contributed to making the decision to abandon the old Twitter. Finally, he pointed out that the newspaper leaves its journalists “freedom of conscience” to continue or leave the social network.
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