Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes appeared at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) meeting in Davos to condemn free speech on the platform X.
“For a long time I was on Twitter, and now it’s become such a toxic place that I’ve concluded it’s not a worthwhile place to spend time. And as you’ve said, it is exhausting,” she said. “So you do have to pick and choose and you have to think about where, the places where you can get your message across. But I am trying to figure out, I mean, I have given up on X. What a scary name that even is, right. And I don’t know what the alternative is right now.”
Luciana Vaccaro, a Swiss physicist, then said, “So the question of the social media, I must say that I have happened on Twitter too.”
“So X, because, yeah, it’s toxic environment and we talk about it. I have no solution on that, but I think one day it will come the moment of the code of conduct in these places, because journals, journalists, if you spread crazy news and insults, and if a journalist thinks it can be amended, why social medias that have such big power? We still can because it’s new,” she described.
“But I think there will be a sociological reflection on how information is brought there. Of course, on ECS now, there is also the policy of the owner that is problematic. But I think this is a problem of the society of the future. Did the ontology in social media and that.”
The exchange was shared by Rukshan Fernando, who wrote on X, “WEF24 Davos is underway, and the speakers are already having a therapy session over @X and @elonmusk.”
