The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency of Germany announced that it would delete its account on the social networking site X.
The agency has decided to shut its account due to the growing intolerance of minorities displayed by site users, and has advised other organisations to do the same.
Ferda Ataman, the agency’s commissioner, said in a statement that “X is no longer a sustainable environment for a public agency” due to an increase in racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, animosity towards trans and queer people, and other misanthropic content.
German government representatives have so far rejected requests to leave X, claiming that there is currently no alternative avenue through which politicians like Chancellor Olaf Scholz may connect online with a sizable portion of the populace.
Whether it made sense to continue using a platform that has “become a disinformation network,” she said, should be a question that other state institutions and government ministries should consider.
Germany’s government, diplomatic, and economy ministries all have active profiles on X, despite Economy Minister Robert Habeck’s absence from the platform since 2019.
