Swiss authorities to join social media alternative Mastodon

The Swiss federal authorities plan to open social media accounts on Mastodon, seen as an alternative to X, formerly known as Twitter. Mastodon is a decentralised online platform that allows it to escape the control of a single company and state censorship. The Federal Departments of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA), and Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) will open official accounts on the “social.admin.ch" server. Federal Council spokesperson André Simonazzi will also have his own official account, the Federal Chancellery said in a press release on Tuesday. + Does social media fuel fake news in Switzerland as much as in the US? This initiative is part of a one-year pilot project, at the end of which an evaluation will be made, the Chancellery further specifies. It does not influence the use of other social networks currently used by the Federal Council and the administration for their communication, such as...