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'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X (www.rfi.fr)

submitted 3 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Interesting, I think they legitimately don't know what they'll do instead:

"Strictly speaking, there are no alternatives to what X offers today," Vincent Berthier, head of the technology department at RSF (Reporters Without Borders) told AFP.

"But we may need to invent them."

I imagine they'll end up on Bluesky, possibly also on Mastodon?

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bluesky most likely, I don’t see mastodon happening unless there is a major change in how the network addresses moderation and defederation.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

What if they were to admin their own instance? It'd be a lot of work though.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, for big orgs like that I feel like a federating their website just makes sense to me.

That way they can host the content (resilience to censor ship) and can still natively share it.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

And honestly, it may really help Mastodon out if people join it specifically to get at the content here.