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SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert
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SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert has deactivated his Twitter profile.
Kühnert told the editorial network Germany that he had practically not used the account in the last few months.
"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.
His Instagram profile with a good 93,000 followers was still available.
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 this leads to false conclusions and errors in political decisions." Since December Kühnert is General Secretary of the SPD.
The SPD politician was recently criticized for statements on Monday morning on the RTL and n-tv 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 matter," Kühnert said.
This is an important aspect that has to be considered in "all hot hearts".
Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) later rejected the deliveries.
hba/dpa