The presence of Elon Musk at the annual party of the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Rome this Saturday, December 16, 2023, seems to have shocked. Indeed, the boss of the social network X, formerly Twitter, was invited to the Atreju festival, from Giorgia Meloni’s party, Fratelli d’Italia. A party linked to the Italian far right since 2014. Over the years, Steve Bannon, Viktor Orbán, and even Marine Le Pen, have been seen at the event.
But this year, it was especially the presence of Elon Musk that caused a reaction. The businessman appeared for the first time at a rally advocating far-right ideas. This aroused the anger of certain Internet users, but also of certain presenters. The proof, with the rant of
Yann Barthès
and Jean-Michel Aphatie. The presenter of Daily
far from sharing the ideas of the businessman or Giorgia Meloni, asked himself after discovering the images of a tape recorder showing the presence of Elon Musk at the event: “So, maybe we should leave X?”
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Yann Barthès and “Quotidien” will leave X this Thursday
“I was saying that to myself. Participating in anything hosted by Elon Musk I find that it can become a problem. There, he appears… he’s not far from the fascists, he’s a scary guy”then replied Jean-Michel Aphatie, visibly disappointed with this position on the part of the businessman. “Would you be willing to leave X?”the presenter asked him again Daily.
The journalist seems ready to do it, because there “think often enough”. Despite the fact that he “love the tool” what is “hate that guy (Elon Musk)”. In fact, he would obviously be ready to leave the social network. “How about we do it on Thursday?”Yann Barthès asked him again before the journalist responded: “All right”. The opportunity for Jérôme Fourquet, director of the Opinion/IFOP department also present on set, to recall that in the United States “subscriber counts have declined since Elon Musk took over.” “Well on Thursday there will be one less subscriber”then warned the presenter of the daily TMC.
RF