Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter ( www.swissinfo.ch )

Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network X (formerly Twitter).

French-language RTS said that since X was taken over by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 it no longer corresponded to the company’s journalistic values.

“Dialogue with our followers is no longer possible [on X], because they are being held hostage by trolls and bots and subjected to hate campaigns and defamation,” RTS spokesman Marco Ferrara told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-ATS on Friday.

The withdrawal is scheduled to take place over the next few months. RTS currently manages around 15 accounts on the platform. “We will maintain a presence with the @RadioTeleSuisse corporate account to keep an eye on things and be able to intervene, for example in the event of our identity being stolen,” he added.

ordellrb ,

danke srf, geili sieche

MamboGator ,
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The picture of Elbow Mush in the thumbnail looks like he's going for the "Justin Timberlake if he aged badly after a diet of whiskey, hamburgers and pocket-fulls of drugs" look.

z9t377ankd ,

I'm a simple man, i see X in the title and i downvote

wesker ,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I wish everyone would withdraw from Twitter.

ad_on_is ,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

especially those who think it's a good idea to post important updates on X.

spacejunkjim ,

There’s always a home for them on the Fediverse!

toothpaste_sandwich ,

Good. Now switch to the Fediverse.

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