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LeBron James pauses on Elon Musk’s platform
Since Musk took over, there has been a lot of criticism for the social media platform X. Now basketball superstar LeBron James is taking a break from social media. And explains itself in a roundabout way.
LeBron James has apparently had enough of the controversial billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X. The basketball superstar is taking a break from X and Instagram, as he announced on those same platforms. James has an immense reach on both: 159 million followers on Instagram, 52.9 million on written.
“With so much hate and negativity in the world today, it boggles my mind why some of the national sports media still believe that the best way to report sports is negative portrayal,” the post, written by Rich Kleiman, said in part , the long-time manager of top player Kevin Durant. On Instagram, James wrote: “Fucking shame what this has come to.”
James, who won the championship in the US professional league NBA four times in his career, has scored more points than anyone else and is on the same level as Michael Jordan as the best basketball players in history, has said he is already a victim of one on social media Became shitstorms.
Well-known cases also in the Bundesliga
In the past few days, the Bundesliga soccer clubs SV Werder Bremen and FC St. Pauli had withdrawn from X, citing increasing radicalization under Musk as the reason.
Werder argued that since Musk’s takeover, “hate speech, hatred against minorities, right-wing extremist posts and conspiracy theories have increased at an incredible pace under the guise of freedom of expression.” Werder (539,000) and St. Pauli (249,000) together have around 800,000 followers on X.
dpa
