German Ministry of Defense suspends its activity on Musk’s X platform

The German Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that it will suspend its activity on the platform X of the American billionaire Elon Musklamenting the difficulty of maintaining an “objective exchange of arguments” on this social network.

“We will suspend our account X starting January 15 and we will not proactively post until further notice,” indicated the ministry in a brief statement, justifying his decision due to the increasing difficulty of maintaining “an objective exchange of arguments.”

This is the first ministry security in making a decision of this type in Germany.

He ministry He specified that he reserves the right to react “exceptionally” in the platform Xfor example in the case of a “disinformation campaign”.

Since its purchase in 2022 by Elon Musk, X (formerly Twitter) is accused by many media and users of spreading false information and of not allocating enough resources to moderate exchanges on the Internet. platform.

Fervent supporter of Donald Trump the businessman defends a radical vision of freedom of expression rejecting any form of censorship.

The German government until now defended the need to maintain its presence in the platform since “You have to be where people look for information.”

The public support of Musk to the extreme right party AfD in recent weeks it has generated indignation among German government parties.