President Mattarella rejects Elon Musk's interference

The President of the Republic responded to Elon Musk's attacks against the Italian judiciary.LifeGate, meanwhile, stops publishing on X.

• In recent weeks Elon Musk has attacked the Italian judges on the Open Arms case and on the centers in Albania.
• In the meantime, Musk has been appointed by Donald Trump for an advisory role in the US administration.
• The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, asked that Musk respect Italian sovereignty and not give prescriptions.
• More and more users are leaving X due to the toxicity of Musk's platform.LifeGate also stops his posts.

The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, took a stand against the billionaire Elon Musk after his statements on the judiciary.Musk has recently published a series of posts on his social network X against the Italian judges, first criticizing the trial for the case Open Arms against Matteo Salvini, then the failure to validate the detention of migrants in the centers Albania.

Without ever naming him, Mattarella asked Musk, whose relations with the Italian government are very close and who in the last few hours has secured a role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, to respect the Italian sovereignty.A strong stance against the billionaire, who follows the haemorrhage of users on his social networkAlso LifeGate has decided to stop posting from his X account.

Elon Musk's attack on the Italian judiciary

In recent times the billionaire Elon Musk he became very close to the Italian government.There have been several meetings between the parties, including participation in the last one Atreju, the Fratelli d'Italia event, while on his social network X the billionaire has repeatedly supported the policies of the Italian government, being in turn cited almost obsessively in particular by Matteo Salvini.

In recent weeks Musk has raised the bar and support for the government has resulted in a frontal attack to the Italian judiciary, making his own a language that is not new to Italian politics.First there was criticism of the Italian judges for the trial Open Arms, which sees the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini accused, then in the last few hours the attack on the judges who did not validate the detention of eight migrant people in the centers in Albania (one because vulnerable, the other seven in light of judgment from the EU Court of Justice on the concept of “safe countries”).Even the first forced transfer a few weeks ago it was concluded in this way.

“These judges they have to go”, he thundered Musk on X, while in another post he said that Italy could be "an unelected autocracy”, alluding to an alleged decision-making power of the judiciary over the country's affairs.

President Mattarella's speech

Elon Musk's accusations against the Italian judiciary have caused a stir, for several reasons.Musk is a multi-billionaire very influential internationally and is also the owner of X, the social platform from which he made these accusations.Musk has also played a role in recent months increasingly political, establishing itself as one of the main financiers of the US election campaign of Donald Trump and participating in numerous rallies.

In the past few hours, Trump announced that Elon Musk will receive a position in his new administration, heading a new body that will advice on cutting federal agency expenses.An institutional role that made Musk's attacks on Italy and its judiciary no longer just the thoughts of a citizen more influential than others, but one diplomatic clash which led to the intervention of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

“Italy is great Democratic country and knows how to look after itself in compliance with its Constitution", he wrote Mattarella.“Anyone, particularly if, as announced, about to hire an important government role in a friendly and allied country, must respect it sovereignty and he cannot take on the task of giving her prescriptions."An invitation to Elon Musk (without ever mentioning him) not to give lessons to the country and to respect it, which has created embarrassment in the billionaire's friendly government, so much so that the prime minister Giorgia Meloni he would have called him to ask him to lower his aim.In a note Elon Musk he expressed respect for Mattarella but said that as a citizen he will continue “to express one's opinions freely”.

The escape from

Elon Musk's attack on the Italian judiciary is only the latest chapter in a spiral of verbal violence and misinformation of the multibillionaire, conveyed mostly through his platform X. 

Musk made the social network one political instrument in its image and likeness, after already in recent years, after its acquisition in 2022, it had taken decisions such as the dismissal of the team responsible for fight against disinformation, had sued the Center for countering digital hate, guilty of having produced a report on the increase in hate speech on trans and non-binary people.

In light of all these elements, and the increasingly central role of Musk himself in making digital square of misinformation and hatred, many users are leaving the social network.Not just ordinary citizens, but also more structured entities, such as cultural associations and the media.At the end of October in Italy he took this decision the collective blog Blue suitcase, Then it is touched to the profile of FBerlin summer, while in the last few hours even the Guardian, one of the world's leading newspapers, he announced abandoning the platform. LifeGate believes in the values ​​of sustainability in all its forms, starting from respect for people up to that of institutions.Observing a dangerous drift in X's content, he decided to stop publishing on the platform.