Shares of Twitter lost up to 8.3% in pre-market, before settling on a loss of 6.4%, after last Friday the social media permanently banned outgoing US President Donald Trump. .
Bloomberg writes this, recalling that Trump has over 88 million people following his account.
"Chancellor Angela Merkel finds it
problematic that
Donald Trump's
Twitter account has been completely blocked
."
The protavoce Steffen Seibert said this at a press conference in Berlin, answering a specific question on the subject.
France
deplores Twitter's decision to exclude
outgoing US
president
Donald Trump, stressing that regulating the network is not up to the giants of the web.
"What shocks me is that it is Twitter that decides to close" Trump's profile, said the French Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, interviewed on radio France Inter.
"The regulation of the giants of the web - he warned - cannot take place through the digital oligarchy itself".
A decision that has already aroused numerous reactions in the four corners of the planet, including the French political class.