2023-04-22 13:29:00
The boss of France Télévisions has paid the owner of Twitter, who questions the independence of certain media on his social network.
It is “scary” that billionaire Elon Muskowner of the social network Twitterclaims to “determine whether a media is independent”, protested on Saturday the president of the French group of public channels France Televisions, Delphine Ernotte.
“Twitter tried to label all public media in the world as state media and then as government or publicly funded media. But finally… who is Mr. Musk to determine if a media is independent or if it is not? ” said Delphine Ernotte daily The echoes. “To see an American billionaire trying to play with our independence in this way and define our public space is frightening,” continued the president of the public group.
These last weeks, Twitter had applied on mainstream media accounts controversial mentions, “state-affiliated media” and “government-funded media”, before deleting them on Friday. “Twitter has retreated as the collective mobilization of public media, the Canada at theAustraliapaid”, commented Delphine Ernotte.
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“But this raises the question of the control of our information space. We cannot let American actors, tomorrow Chinese, play like sorcerer’s apprentices with our democracies, ”she continued. In mid-April, the American public radio NPR had left Twitter, unhappy with the me […] Read more
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