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Berlin Film Festival Announces It Is Quitting Elon Musk’s X


Fest did not give reason for decision but it comes amid concern about surge in disinformation and abusive content on X, since Elon Musk took ownership

The Berlin Film Festival has announced it is leaving X on December 31, 2024, after 15 years on the social media platform where it currently has 133.9K Followers In recent weeks, the controversial tech tycoon has been regularly posting in support of Donald Trump in his bid to become U.S. president for a second term. “After the latest statements by the owner of Twitter (or rather, sorry, of X) , I have definitely lost the desire (already weakened) to remain on a platform, the objectives and purposes of which I no longer share,” he wrote at the time, without detailing which particular comments had sparked the move.

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