Musk has been a staunch supporter of Trump who stood by the Republican presidential nominee during the campaign. Just after his victory in the U.S. 2024 election, Trump picked Musk, together with American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Related: Trump taps Musk, Ramaswamy to lead Department of Government Efficiency that will focus on reducing government spending.) Musk also said that legacy media is dead, claiming that "most legacy media lied relentlessly to the public." This seemed to have enraged the journalists, led by the EFJ President Maja Sever. "We cannot continue to participate in feeding the social network of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists...The social media site X has become the preferred vector for conspiracy theories, racism, far-right ideas and misogynistic rhetoric," Sever argued in a statement. "X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the particular ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies." EFJ General Secretary Ricardo Gutierrez added that the editorial evolution of X "is simply in contradiction with our humanist values, our commitment to press freedom and media pluralism and our fight against all forms of hatred and discrimination." He added that suspending their official handle @EFJEUROPE is an obviously expected decision. He also urged their affiliates and all organizations, which "defend freedom of expression" to migrate to other platforms. ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden said that Musk's move to lift the "suffocating wet blanket of online censorship from a single website" seemed to have made the European media panic. They even claimed that Sever had received "misogynistic cyber-harassment and death threats" without showing any evidence to support the accusation.X-odus: As of 20 January 2025, we have decided to stop publishing content on Elon Musk's platform X. We can no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda. ?https://t.co/NTwnC63vhs
— EFJ (@efjeurope) November 26, 2024
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