World [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

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Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

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World [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation.

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19•2 years ago
Agreed. Sewers serve an important sanitary purpose. I propose to characterize Twixxer as an out of control tire fire.
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  Why not a controlled tire fire:
  
  https://youtu.be/XvkD4QgMtWg?si=2R0l3B6_xn7Oc_DD

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