“Why am I leaving…”: Anne Hidalgo announces a radical decision

Anne Hidalgo has chosen her side. In a dated column published in The world this Monday, November 27, the mayor of Paris announced leave the social network Twitter, which became X following the takeover of multi-billionaire Elon Musk. She detailed the reasons that led her to make this decision. “Far from being the revolutionary tool which, initially, allowed access to information for the greatest number of people, In recent years, Twitter has become the weapon of mass destruction of our democracies“, estimated the tenant of the Town Hall in the preamble, recalling that she was “one of the first French female politicians to join this network“, which she describes today as “vast global sewer.”

She then denounced the abuses of the platformevoking manipulation, disinformation or even the impulses of hatred of certain users of X. “Today, controversies, rumors and crude manipulations dictate public debate, powered by the Twitter algorithm, where only the number of ‘likes’ counts. What do the facts matter?“, lamented the councilor, who did not hesitate to pointing fingers Elon Musk and its policy. “This platform and its owner deliberately act to exacerbate tensions and conflicts“, affirmed the former presidential candidate, specifying that it is “a very clear political project which wants to do without democracy and its values ​​for powerful private interests.“

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Anne Hidalgo ready to return to Paris town hall in 2026? She answers !

While she was invited on the air of LCI at the beginning of September, Anne Hidalgo was asked about the 2026 municipal elections. So, is the current mayor of Paris thinking about her re-election? With disconcerting frankness, the main interested party replied: “We hear a lot of nonsense anyway!“And the 64-year-old politician added:”That’s not the subject today. I’ll see, I haven’t made my decision yet“, she assured. The mayor of Paris, moreover, explained regret the actions of certain politicians, who let their ambitions dominate their career choices. “There are many politicians who damage their function by being in one place and thinking immediately [à l’après, ndlr]. It is better to concentrate on what we have to do at the moment we are“, she estimated. To the wise…

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