2023-04-18 21:11:55
If the public media do not oppose at this stage a common front to Twitter, the subject is being considered, at the French level, even European. GIVEN RUVIC/REUTERS
On Tuesday, Swedish public radio closed its accounts on the social network. France Télévisions, Radio France and France Médias Monde are now labeled “media financed by public funds”.
The public media outcry against Twitter is growing every day. On Tuesday, Swedish public radio Sveriges Radio (SR) joined the ranks of audiovisual groups who decided to cease their activities on the social network bought this fall by Elon Musk. Sveriges Radio “made the decision to completely stop being active on the platform, as well as to delete a series of accounts”, declared on its blog the group of antennas most listened to in the Nordic country. “The public simply chose other places”, explained the public media’s social media manager, Christian Gillinger, adding that “Twitter has changed over the year and become less important to us».
The Swedish group has become the first major European public broadcaster to pack up. But not to protest against the new label of “publicly funded media” that Twitter had just imposed on him. Nevertheless. This decision comes in a…
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