German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk – DW – 01/10/2025
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More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping political discourse.

Summary

Over 60 German and Austrian universities and research institutions announced their exit from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), citing the platform’s promotion of right-wing populist content and its incompatibility with democratic and scientific values.

This follows Germany’s Federal Court of Justice and trade unions leaving the platform.

The German government is also debating a withdrawal, expressing concerns over X’s polarizing effect on political discourse.

The departure comes after Musk’s public support for Germany’s far-right AfD party and a live talk with its leader Alice Weidel ahead of upcoming elections.

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    711·
    20 hours ago

    Here’s a wild idea - go to the official website of the institution and click the “news” tab.

    It’s like people forgot how the World Wide Web works.

        • etuomaala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          411·
          16 hours ago

          Yeah, I thought of that. RSS doesn’t actually do push notifications, though. At least, I’m pretty sure. It’s based on polling from the subscribers’ clients.

          • randomuser38529@lemmy.worldEnglish
            10·
            16 hours ago

            I don’t remember all the technobabble but am almost sure Apple push notifications are actually ’pulled’.

            Regardless, there are some sweet RSS reader apps which make it seem like push notifications.

            This solves spreading the news.

            • etuomaala@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              13 hours ago

              Mobile push notifications really are pushed. It’s actually quite a fascinating problem, because phones are suspended to RAM most of the time and network events need to be able to wake a phone from this state.

              In Android Land, just one notification system, called Firebase Cloud Messaging, handles almost all of the push notifications. And it’s controlled by Google lol. The situation is similar in Apple Land.