Werder Bremen is the second Bundesliga club to leave the social network Elon Musk bought the platform. Last week, Sankt Pauli decided to start publishing on Bluesky.
“Since Elon Musk took the stage, under the pretext of freedom of expression, “Hate speech, hatred against minorities, far-right messages and conspiracy theories have increased at an incredible speed,” Werder Bremen explained in a statement after the meeting held on Monday evening.
“The radicalization of the platform was driven by Elon Musk himself and his publications. In particular, he made transphobic and anti-Semitic comments and spread conspiracy stories, “ added Werder Bremen, four-time Bundesliga champions in 1965, 1988, 1993 and 2004.
“Almost nothing is allowed on the platform. The platform’s algorithms and controls are completely opaque. Furthermore, Elon Musk uses the network to make it a political weapon, as we saw recently during the US election campaign,” the statement continued.
Call to switch to Bluesky
Werder Bremen, which has “taken a clear position against hatred, discrimination and exclusion”, and for “diversity, freedom and democracy, unity and solidarity within society”, has decided to withdraw from X and asked his 600,000 followers Join him now on the Bluesky social network.
Werder Bremen made a decision similar to that announced by Sankt Pauli, a Hamburg club that was promoted to the Bundesliga this season and had 250,000 followers on X.
As reported a few days ago by BildBayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg is about to join, while Stuttgart, Werder Bremen, RB Leipzig and Hoffenheim Maybe they will follow.
Source: La Verdad
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