Madrid (Spain), Jan 21 (LaPresse) – Spain's second vice-premier Yolanda Diaz, the ministers of her Sumar party, and the political formation itself have decided to leave X in controversy with Elon Musk. ‘Yesterday the whole world could see Elon Musk emulating the Nazi salute in the context of Donald Trump's inauguration. It was a very harsh image that made me make a decision I had been pondering for several months,’ Diaz wrote in a statement in which he claimed that “for months Musk has been using X for political purposes” and that the platform “has stopped being a communication tool or a social to become a propaganda mechanism that uses its algorithm to make some ideas prevail over others” with an “impact on public opinion”. Diaz was joined by Childhood and Youth Minister Sira Rego and Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun, who announced their farewell to X.
‘This is not a slip of the tongue, a provocation or a mistake. Elon Musk's Nazi salute is a statement of intent,’ Minister Rego said on X, writing that “it has become untenable to continue feeding the business of a billionaire who plays at being a dictator”. ‘I am leaving X because it is not a platform for the exchange of opinions, it is the business of misinformation’, “because it is not necessary to flee conflict, it is not necessary to abandon spaces, but I also do not want to be part of the cog of destruction thinking”, “I am leaving X because there are alternatives to the absolute power of technological feudalism, and we will build them by betting on the public and digital sovereignty”, Rego added.