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[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

Well, that's me done. @[email protected]

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@Lady__Seraphina @Otto_English There is no balance. There *can never be* balance here. A fascist personally owns and controls this place and makes sure the playing field remains irretrievably tilted in his favour, slowly poisoning everything with hatred.

It's time to go, and it's been time to go for years.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@MBDscience Please come back to Bluesky and don't post on this explicitly far right extremist site. This website literally paid salaries to those who coordinated and incited the August riots last year:
https://t.co/aukABKESJb

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@Daniel_Sugarman That's worrying :/ I did notice some time ago I'd been confusingly put on a couple of lists along the lines of "ZOG conspiracists", but there's no way to remove yourself from them or appeal. Hope there's a way around it.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@Daniel_Sugarman Tried to find you, but I'm blocked (https://t.co/otOhH7so9x)—would you consider reversing? Happy to discuss if I've caused offence.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@wmarybeard This place is already a platform for the far right: it's fully owned and controlled by them and is soon to be the de facto mouthpiece media of a far right national regime.

It is not we who are moving away from them. They moved away from us.

Come to BlueSky. Let's start again.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

BlueSky now open to all, no invites required. If you give it a try, find me at handle https://t.co/SuTe5dKEuD.
https://t.co/CyUvDeJrAn

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

"I…encourage you all to leave [X] … It is serving no purpose in staying, other than to keep the platform going and to justify to some brands that there are still some good people there to advertise to … I know it's hard, but it's the right thing to do"
https://t.co/RoMk1SfPC8

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@JoeMulhall_ @hopenothate Why are you and HNH still using this fascist site and not any of the non-fascist alternatives? You have a responsibility to get anti-fascist organising out of here and not keeping us dependent on it.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@LiamGall1983 DMd you.

[Anne Hidalgo @Anne_Hidalgo]

Why I am leaving Twitter.

I have made the decision to leave Twitter.

Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies.

Whether it be manipulation, disinformation, the fostering of hatred, harassment, anti-Semitism and open racism, or vicious attacks on scientists, climatologists, women, environmentalists, liberals and all those of good will who wish to engage in peaceful political debate in an increasingly complex world, the range of abuses is endless. Not to mention the daily external meddling in electoral processes, aimed at destabilizing our democracies and undermining their image and sovereignty.

Today, controversy, rumor and crude manipulation rule public debate, fueled by Twitter's algorithm, where the only thing that counts is the number of "likes". Facts are irrelevant.

This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts.

Furthermore, it intentionally hinders the information needed to bring about the ecological and energy transformation we much need, in favor of climate protectionist arguments driven by fossil fuel interests and boundless greed for the planet. We can keep denying, clarifying and explaining, but the noise produced by a piece of misinformation will still dwarf the echo of a proven truth.

We must not deceive ourselves. We are dealing here with an utterly clear political project to push aside democracy and its values in favor of powerful private interests.

The latest transparency report on content control, released by Twitter itself, ranks France first in Europe for violent and illegal content.

This medium has become a gigantic global sewer, and we should continue to wade into it?

We see it every day: Twitter hinders debate, the quest for truth, and the serene and constructive dialogue needed between human beings. With its thousands of anonymous accounts and its troll farms, life on Twitter is the exact opposite of democratic life.

I refuse to endorse this evil scheme.

I believe deeply in democracy, which remains in the making.

I believe in exchanges, in these difficult times.

We should never accept the bullying of vile attacks.

We should not allow the "engineers of chaos" to seize control of our destinies.

We should not accept the daily disintegration of our democracies on our screens.

In March 2009, I was one of the first French women in politics to join this network, which today counts a community of over 1,500,000 subscribers worldwide.

To remain true to my convictions and my commitment, I am leaving Twitter today.

I will remain on other social media networks in which respectful exchanges can still take place: https://t.co/52QpyGVbey

We need more than ever to keep real democracy alive, whether it be through town councils, town meetings, referendums, conferences or get-togethers. These are places where people see each other, argue, build together and simply live together.

When all is dark, we need to reach for the light and those great spirits who, at certain times in our history, have shown us the way. "We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will all die together as idiots", Martin Luther King told us in the early 1960s.

We can trust each other and find our way back to democracy, peace and fraternity. It is in our hands.

Read this Op-ED in @lemondefr : https://t.co/97DG4WgJSB

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

We’re live on Threads, folks.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

https://t.co/lh55wSSz7Z

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

just a regular reminder that we've moved our org presence off this platform because ITS OWNER IS AN OPEN ANTI-SEMITE WHO CHEERFULLY MAINSTREAMS WHITE SUPREMACIST TALKING POINTS and you can too: https://t.co/FYw9FfeAR9

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

Apple, Disney and IBM to pause ads on X after antisemitic Elon Musk tweet
https://t.co/4O6l9HCOP8

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@hopenothate @MattHopeNotHate Please stop posting on this fascist website.

Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk’s antisemitic posts
https://t.co/bSSfzoMLNe

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk’s antisemitic posts
https://t.co/bSSfzoMLNe

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

Get off this site.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@hopenothate Stop using this fascist website.
@lowles_nick

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@mariannaspring Come back to Threads. Huge audience now and very well moderated.

[Hughster 🇺🇦 @hughster]

@hopenothate Please send a clear message and leave this site. If we say we oppose the far right we cannot use their platforms.