MEP Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV) felt that the social network Twitter, just bought by billionaire Elon Musk, was “the latest avatar of a system that wants to destroy everything”. “It wants to destroy complex thought, it wants to basically destroy everything that makes a democracy,” he explained.
EELV MEP Yannick Jadot said Monday that the social network Twitter, just bought by billionaire Elon Musk, was “the latest avatar of a system that wants to destroy everything”. “We had a system which is, as we know, predatory from the point of view of the environment, predatory from the social point of view, but today these social networks are an attack on democracy”, developed the former candidate. in the presidential election on Franceinfo.
“Destroy Complex Thought”
“It wants to destroy complex thought, it wants to basically destroy everything that makes a democracy: a little time, a little reflection, arguments rather than invectives, discussing with others, building compromises with others. ..”, he continued. Claiming to have limited his speech himself on the social network, he compared it to finance: “You have algorithms which want to reinforce instability in a certain way, which want to reinforce invective, insult, including racist remarks or threats. You have a kind of profitability which is the number of views. You have an absolute short-termism”.
For the MEP, “Twitter kills democracy, kills politics, with Twitter in the end it’s Trump who wins”. At the head of Twitter for a week, the richest man in the world, who had announced his intention to restore absolute freedom of expression there, has already fired half of the staff.