Bundesliga side leave X and blast Elon Musk for fuelling hate speech and conspiracy theories

Werder Bremen person near X for Bluesky and urged their followers to bash the aforesaid aft increasing bushed of proprietor Elon Musk and his "transphobic and anti-Semitic comments"

Werder Bremen person launched a stinging onslaught against Elon Musk aft announcing their departure from X.

The societal media site, which was formerly called Twitter, has seen a mini exodus of late, with galore celebrities and radical with immense followings leaving for alternatives Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon. Musk is simply a hugely arguable fig who has made sweeping changes to Twitter since taking it implicit successful October 2022.

Since rebranding Twitter arsenic X, the Tesla proprietor has chopped jobs and stripped backmost tons of the features of the platform, gradually turning it into his ain plaything. Musk was precocious named the caput of incoming President Donald Trump's caller Department of Government Efficiency – and that determination has sparked a absorption connected X.

Bluesky – a precise similar-looking level which calls itself “social media arsenic it should be” – has picked up millions of caller users successful the past fewer weeks. One of those swapping X for Bluesky is German Bundesliga nine Werder Bremen, who marked their departure with a connection which called retired Musk.

The club’s main enforcement Klaus Filbry has made the basal pursuing their yearly wide gathering connected Monday. The nine connection read: “Since Elon Musk took implicit the platform, hatred speech, hatred towards minorities, right-wing extremist posts and conspiracy theories person been allowed to dispersed astatine an unthinkable pace, each nether the guise of state of speech.

“The radicalisation of the level is being actively driven by Elon Musk and his idiosyncratic posts, which see transphobic and anti-Semitic comments, arsenic good arsenic the spreading of conspiracy narratives.

“Next to thing is presently being monitored connected the platform. The algorithms and determination making astatine X are wholly non-transparent processes. Additionally, Elon Musk is utilising the societal web arsenic a governmental weapon, arsenic seen precocious during the people of the US election.

“SV Werder Bremen are taking a wide stance against hatred, hatred speech, favoritism and exclusion. The Green-Whites are arrogant to basal for diversity, state and democracy, arsenic good arsenic for cohesion and solidarity successful society.

“With the caller radicalisation of the platform, a enactment has been crossed for the club. The Green-Whites are truthful leaving X effectual instantly and anticipation that our much than 600,000 followers volition travel the nine connected Bluesky successful the future.”

Bremen are eighth successful the Bundesliga, with 4 wins from 10 matches truthful acold this season. They person won the Bundesliga connected 4 occasions and are 1 of the astir historical clubs successful Germany, sharing the grounds for astir seasons played successful the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich.

Bremen made past successful May 2022 by becoming the archetypal shot nine successful the world to articulation Common Goal – an inaugural which sees participants donate 1 per cent of their income to charity. The nine gives 1 per cent of its ticketing and sponsorship gross to the societal initiative, portion main enforcement Filbry was a founding subordinate successful 2019.

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