As French President Emmanuel Macron tries to get X owner Elon Musk and US President-elect Donald Trump to attend an artificial intelligence summit in Paris next month, the French capital's account is leaving the X platform due to increased incidents of misinformation and.

The farewell message from Paris's PR account said that using the platform became at first "

“The City of Paris is closing its account on Monday, January 20. This is a difficult choice, but it is necessary if we want to bring society together through peaceful means of self-expression. Moreover, Paris is committed to facts and truthful information,” says the tweet announcing the transfer of the account to the Bluesky social network.

The capital's PR account noted that X is reducing the reach of factual and objective reporting, as well as fueling hate speech and disinformation, which, coupled with a lack of moderation, has become a problem.

At the end of 2023, X left the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, calling the platform a “garbage dump” and “a weapon of mass destruction of our democracies.”.

“This platform and its owner are deliberately acting to exacerbate tensions and conflicts. Let's not fool ourselves. This is a very clear political project that wants to abandon democracy and its values \u200b\u200bfor the sake of powerful private interests,” Hidalgo wrote in her latest message..

Musk bought X, formerly Twitter, in 2022.

After the billionaire's interventions in the domestic politics of Germany and the UK, he was criticized in Europe.

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Previously, Emmanuel Macron and Musk maintained a warm relationship: last month, the billionaire attended the opening of Notre Dame Cathedral with Trump and donated 100 Starlink terminals to the cyclone-hit French overseas territory of Mayotte.

However, last week the French president criticized Musk, accusing him of interfering in European politics and supporting reactionary advances around the world.