Europe leaves Elon Musk’s social community | EUROtoday

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Between October 2023 and March 2024, Xthe social (ex Twitter) of which he’s the proprietor Elon Muskrecorded a month-to-month common of 8,016,904 lively customers in Italy. A yr later, in line with the information contained in DSA Transparency Report Published in April 2025, the determine dropped to 7,824,833. The drop is 2.4%: modest in comparison with the collapse recorded in the remainder of Europe, however in any case indicative of a wider pattern.

At European stage, the image is way more clear. In simply six months, X has misplaced over 11 million month-to-month lively customers, descending from 111.4 to 100.4 million. In France, customers decreased by 2.7 million; in Poland of about 1.8 million; in Germany of 1.3. It is probably the most evident signal of the disaster that crosses the platform from its acquisition by Elon Muskwithin the autumn of 2022.

The suprematist drift

The excessive ideological imprint of its proprietor engraved on the id of the platform. In many European nations, X is perceived as the bottom by which the propaganda of the sovereign forces and of the far proper spreads.

The demonstrations by its founder has not been missing over time. On January 25, 2025, Musk participated in video calling in an electoral occasion of the choice Für Deutschland (AFD), held in Halle, Germany. During his speech he outlined the AFD “the best hope for Germany” and the Germans urged to be “proud of German culture and values”, criticizing what has outlined extreme consideration to the sense of guilt for the previous.

A couple of months earlier, in October 2023, he had shared a meme containing the “clown world” emoji, a logo used within the white supremacist circuits to make neo -Nazi propaganda, deride the progressive values ​​and promote theories of conspiracy with an anti -Semitic background.