Leave X - Protect DemocracyJan 26

Only 17% of Austrian MPs are still on X.
Compare that to Sweden, 66%, the Netherlands, 63%, and the EU, 58%, that gap is striking.

Finland is often cited as a leader in digital literacy and counter-disinformation. It makes me curious how Finnish politicians assess X today, as a neutral platform, or as an active disinformation risk.

Which European country will be the first to seriously lead by example and walk away from this disinformation machine?

#X #disinformation #Finland #LeaveX

Show threadPaulaToThePeople 😷Jan 26
@leavex I don't know about "still". Do you have stats on how many ever were on X?
Austrian MPs don't understand social (or antisocial) media.
Show threadVeza85UEJan 26
@PaulaToThePeople @leavex See also: all of CEE, twitter was never relevant there outside of Poland, the biggest but also the most "Tu vuo fa l'Americano" of all the countries in the region.
For a third of the EU, the preferred method of brainrot, Russian propaganda and general disinformation has always been Facebook, later joined by tiktok.
Show threadSzewek

@Veza85UE @PaulaToThePeople @leavex

I was so disgusted during the last presidential campaign in Poland that even the liberal media constantly sued X as their source of news and opinons. Like, they had a session during the post-election evening, in which they just went through "who-wrote-what-on-X", mixing actual politicians with X influencers...

Jan 26 at 10:25amWeb
Show threadSzewekJan 26
@Veza85UE @PaulaToThePeople @leavex But yeah, otherwise even in Poland, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok dominate brainrot, and are full of Russian bots.
Show threadVeza85UEJan 26
@szewek @PaulaToThePeople @leavex First social media destroyed the financial model of journalism, which is where I can have sympathy, we suddenly all wanted news for free. And THEN the algorithm genuinely shredded most journalists' brains. Watching them on twitter during the pandemic was a  moment. And some politicians', like Radek Sikorski or our Minister of Transport. I'm convinced if twitter were banned in the EU both would download a VPN and inject it in their veins like Medvedev.
Show threadSzewekJan 26

@Veza85UE @PaulaToThePeople @leavex

Haha, yeah, Radek Sikorski surely is a Twitter addict, it fits his style of "debating" (WTF they tought him and Orban in Oxford).

By "our Minister of Transport" which country do you mean?

Show threadVeza85UEJan 26

@szewek @PaulaToThePeople @leavex
There's a lesson in there about the unwarranted respect most Europeans have for anglos and anglo institutions like Oxford that produced brainwormed grifters in both the UK and the US.

Oscar Puente, Spanish Minister of Transport. Look at these cringey middleaged bros (and EU "Senators" making EU law in their respective Councils 😭):

Show threadFlicJan 26
@szewek @Veza85UE @PaulaToThePeople @leavex this has been British media for at least a decade. They are all addicted and can't see it.