Digital detox for Kühnert? At least the SPD general secretary is doing a Twitter detox now. It has to do with his political work. And with Twitter itself.
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert has deactivated his Twitter profile. He has practically not used the account in the last few months, said Kühnert on Monday in an interview with the editorial network Germany. “Then you just have to draw the conclusion for yourself at some point and say: This doesn’t seem to be the right medium for sending and receiving, especially for my political work.” That’s why he deactivated the account.
Kühnert had almost 370,000 followers on Twitter. His profile was no longer available on Monday. “This account does not exist,” said the short message service. His Instagram profile with a good 93,000 followers was still online on Monday.
He found that Twitter distorted his perception of reality, said Kühnert. “I just think that the culture of discussion that takes place on Twitter and the way society is represented there or, I would say, is not represented at all, that leads to false conclusions and errors in political decisions.”
In a live conversation with party leader Lars Klingbeil on Instagram on Monday evening, Kühnert said the decision to leave Twitter is unlikely to be permanent. The stumbling block to deactivating the Twitter account on Monday of all days was the reaction to an interview, the statements of which were sometimes spread in an alienated way. “It was just too stupid for me today,” said Kühnert. It is not to be understood as a political statement against social networks or the like.
Kühnert was recently criticized for statements on Monday morning on the RTL and ntv channels. There he expressed reservations about demands for deliveries of German battle tanks to Ukraine. “These statements that we don’t want to be gradually drawn into the war, that we don’t want to encourage Russia to act completely irrationally in the end and attack completely different states, that’s no small thing.” This is an important aspect that must be considered with “all hot hearts”.
Source: Stern
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