German anti-racism body leaves X over ‘rise in hate speech’::A German agency that tackles discrimination and racism says it is quitting the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It cited a rise in hate speech since owner Elon Musk took over last year.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
FADA said hateful comments and disinformation had “increased particularly” since Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took over the platform formerly known as Twitter last year.
In a statement, FADA said there had been an “enormous increase” in anti-trans and homophobic hostility, racism, misogyny, anti-semitism and other misanthropic content.
Ataman said FADA could only try to combat the surge in hate comments by channeling more resources to the platform, which could be a questionable use of public money.
A rise in disinformation on the platform, with doctored images and misleading claims, has been reported since the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched a massive surprise attack on Israel on Saturday.
Many German officials have resisted calls to quit X, saying there was no substitute channel at present that would allow them to reach a broad section of the online public.
X said it had taken steps to curb the recent spread of inappropriate posts and that it had removed newly created Hamas-affiliated accounts to “prevent terrorist content from being distributed online.”
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Many German officials have resisted calls to quit X, saying there was no substitute channel at present that would allow them to reach a broad section of the online public.
That’s it right there - this line really emphasizes why Musky came up with the idea to buy the platform in the first place.
It’s also an exit condition. When it no longer serves as a channel to reach enough people, they leave, and more leave as a result… the interesting question is there that threshold lies
There certainly isn’t a shortage of government-run mastodon servers in Germany. It’s probably a good idea to make sure everything gets posted there and agencies with small and specialised audiences can get off twitter (also, facebook) quite easily. Say if you’re interested in updates to discussions about updates to the tax code.
Others will stay as long as there’s people to reach and the information is important. E.g. the weather service can withdraw when they get tired of the platform, while catastrophe relief just plainly won’t as long as there’s people on there. Everything actually important that the weather service says is also said by catastrophe relief (imminent bad storm, extreme UV/heat, what have you).
You know you fucked up when Germany chastises you for racism.
Doesn’t Germany have the strongest anti-racism laws in the world since the end of Nazi Germany? And also the country accepting the most immigrants during the refugee crisis (and among the top counting per capita I think)?
Doesn’t Germany have the strongest anti-racism laws in the world since the end of Nazi Germany?
Possibly, but not by a large margin compared to other European countries
And also the country accepting the most immigrants during the refugee crisis (and among the top counting per capita I think)?
Not by a long shot, Turkey took in 3.7 million Syrians, Germany 788k, and both countries have ballpark the same population.
Not by a long shot […]
Right, I concede. The neighboring countries did accept way more. Germany is still accepted significantly more than the vast majority of countries (though it bears mention that Germany is also quite a massive country, for example Sweden’s number of refugees seem small in comparison but is fairly close in refugees per capita).
I visited Germany recently, and I did notice more racism than I’ve seen at home. There were some distant relatives of mine, who I’ve never met before, casually making racist jokes to each other, without attempting to hide it.
Something tells me they were paid to move to one of the other proprietary platforms.
I guess we’ll see if they choose Mastodon or one of the proprietary platforms.
You must be woefully innocent if you think people aren’t paid to switch and promote different platforms.
I recommend looking into how Red Bull got big. They literally paid influential people on college campuses to shill their product to people who can’t think for themselves.
Uh, your comment doesn’t make sense. Mastodon is part of the fediverse and is Foss.
Tbh it has taken far longer than I expected but people do love their Xitter
