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“Don’t leave it to screamers”: Habeck back to X
Twitter is a very hard medium, divisive and polarizing, and that also rubs off on him: Robert Habeck announced his departure from the online network at the beginning of 2019. Now he’s back.
He’s back: Almost six years after his departure from Twitter and Facebook, Robert Habeck has returned to Platform X. “Leaving places like these to the loudmouths and populists is easy. But making it easy for yourself can’t be the solution. Not today. Not this week. Not this time. That’s why I’m back on X,” says one Post from the Green Party politician and Federal Minister of Economics. The “Handelsblatt” initially reported on Habeck’s return to the platform.
He had previously intoned his return with the saying “Back for good”, in German roughly “finally back”. According to dpa information, the posts are authentic. Robert Habeck now also has an account on Instagram. It is expected that the Economics Minister will officially announce his application for the Green Party’s top or chancellor candidacy before the Green Party conference next week.
In another post, Habeck can be seen editing a text manuscript. In the background there is a calendar on which November 8th, Friday, is outlined in red. He also hums the melody of Herbert Grönemeyer’s hit “Time for something to turn around”. The post is titled “Different from here on out” – the title of a book by Habeck.
In 2019 it was still bye bye for Habeck
At the beginning of 2019, Habeck, then still leader of the Green Party, announced under the heading “Bye bye, Twitter and Facebook” that he would be closing his accounts on Facebook and Twitter. In doing so, he drew the consequences of anger over election campaign tweets and a data theft that led to the dissemination of private information.
Habeck said at the time that Twitter was a “very hard medium where there is divisive and polarizing talk,” and that also rubbed off on him. Billionaire Elon Musk has since taken over Twitter and renamed it X, and polarization has increased significantly since then.
dpa
Source: Stern
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