St. Pauli, sixteenth in the German Bundesliga classification, announced this Thursday that it is leaving the social network influence on the upcoming early elections on February 23 in Germany.
“Since Musk took over Twitter, as the platform was previously known, he has turned are sanctioned and sold as supposed freedom of expression,” the club criticizes in a statement.
In addition, he adds, Donald Trump announced after his electoral victory in the United States that he will appoint Musk as director of a newly created government agency, who already actively supported the president-elect during the election campaign, also through X.
“It can be assumed that X will also promote authoritarian, inhuman and extreme right-wing content in the Bundestag election campaign and thus manipulate public discourse,” warns St. Pauli.
The club, active on the old Twitter since 2013 and with 250,000 followers to date, had already limited the use of X and mainly published political statements in favor of diversity and inclusion to position itself against hate.
“Now, the club will end its activities on From now on, read the club’s messages on BlueSky.
