French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused…

French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    French are using Twitter a lot. Even people that are considered pretty far to the left. I’ve tried to discuss this with a few french connections I have and it’s always “but that’s where the people are”…

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I never understood Twitter. I tried it for like a almost a month and eventually forgot my password and just didn’t care anymore.

      But when I did use it, you make a tweet or comment and then either no one responds to it, or like a hundred people respond with mostly vitriol or just total confusion, not even relating to your comment.

      It ended up just being like a really shitty news feed, with a mix of random people from Ghana that started following me and visa versa for whatever reasons.