This is absolutely awesome! The @leavex campaign now has their website up an running, so we can see exactly which members of the EU parliament still support Musk's disinformation platform X, and avoid voting for them.
I hope @leavex expands to add every national parliament — the disinformation has to end.
Se their excellent overview here:
https://leavex.eu/politicians/
Please boost this to support the campaign.
@randahl @leavex @magichopi Interesting that Hungary has the lowest fraction of MEPs on X 🤔
@jknodlseder Orbán probably prefers VK.
(Russian social media platform)
@randahl
I'm glad politicians are leaving X, but I wish Mastodon was safer for minorities.
Unfortunately it will remain very "monochrome" until the abuse side is looked at more.
@roomey genuinely, where is safer for minorities than Mastodon? 🤔
@randahl there are a number of places, the best way to find out is actually see where minorities are currently using for social media.
There was a push to move the BLM twitter movement to mastodon when Elon bought it out, but it didn't take. There was a lot of racist abuse sent, and at the time (and my understanding is it is still the case) the anti abuse features weren't up to the standard needed.
A lot of folk just left at that stage, to places like bluesky for example.
I support it but misinfo and hate are an inherent part of the internet. Of the ability for anyone to have a website.
The problem with corporate platforms (and mass media) is their ability to control attention. To decide lots of people should see the misinfo. Ultimately it means money can be turned into influence via ads, algos and owners deciding what gets aired.
Decentralized social media lets us decide together what gets attention. Trust the people. #DemocracyOfReach
@randahl Can't he charged with election tampering he tries to buy elections
@randahl
Great initiative. Still needs to update some information, though. I happened to check on the Twitter / X account of @marketkag.bsky.social today, because she gave a speech in the EP calling on policymakers to boycott the platform, and indeed her account there recently declared an X-it. The campaign site still lists her as active.
But with some crowd sourced attention we can keep it up to date I'm sure.
@leavex
Thanks to @reithose, we already have the data for MPs in the Netherlands.
https://leavex.eu/politicians-nl/
You can also copy the emails from your selected politicians and send them a message.
Still work in progress! It took a lot of (spare) time to make as it is. Contributions welcome. Here is how
