German soccer club St. Pauli is leaving X, saying the social media platform has become a “hate machine” that could influence upcoming German elections.

St Pauli Hamburg has decided to leave the social media platform X, citing as a reason that Elon Musk, the owner of the microblogging platform, has turned it into a "hate amplifier." "Elon Musk has turned a space for debate into a hate amplifier that could also influence the Bundestag elections,

German Bundesliga club St Pauli said on Thursday it was withdrawing from X because the social media platform had become an 'amplifier of hate' that could influence German politics. Announcing its reasons for withdrawing,

German football club FC St Pauli became one of the first sports franchises to withdraw from social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). The club announced that it was withdrawing from the social media platform because its owner Elon Musk had ...

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