Lobato announced that he was leaving the social network ‘X’ for spreading “false information all the time”.

Madrid 17 November (Europa Press) –

Juan Lobato, Secretary General of the PSOE-M, has announced that he is finally leaving the social network ‘X’ because, in his opinion, he has led a network in which “false information is insulted and propagated all the time and every The place is spread out.” “Corners of it”.

This is how the socialist expressed himself in a statement published this Sunday on this same social network, from where he said goodbye after evaluating it for a few days.

As Lobato explained, he had been observing “with concern” for some time that the tactics of misinformation and deception “know no limits” and that society “is at serious and real risk to liberal democracies, such as “Spanish Democracy”.

In his opinion, one of the main scenarios of global reality is ‘X’, formerly Twitter, which “travels across the country or the entire planet through short messages of just 10 words accompanied by manipulated, inaccurate or out-of-context videos.” denies, for example, that the scientific evidence is based on decades of research by thousands of people,” the statement said.

The PSOE-M spokesperson in the Assembly regretted that ‘X’ has turned into a network in which “false information is disseminated and insults are spread at all times and at every corner” while it was born “opportunities for direct dialogue and debate”. ” As it happened. Honest among citizens”.

Additionally, he has been accused of ‘X’s’ “algorithm” as the main source of misinformation and fraud, citing climate change.

At this point, he has made a collective call against fraud. “I think this is more than enough reason to come together and send a clear collective signal against something that perpetuates deception and decisively promotes misinformation and polarization. Among other things, this is climate denialism.” The coverage and protection it provides is the reason that drove my decision,” he said.

In this case, Lobato has said that he will respond and confront misinformation and fraud outside this social network. “I do it because you respond to a million rumors a million times with the truth, because there are even more rumors and misinformation,” he said.

Finally, he has thanked all the people with whom he has shared his 13 years in X and left a list of other social networks in which he has an account to continue the conversation in those places.