Congratulations to Navi Pillay for winning the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize 🕊️ Her first reaction: "If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump"⬇️

The most followed leaders of international organizations: 1⃣ @WTO Director General @NOIweala 2⃣ @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres 3⃣ @WHO Director General @DrTedros #UNGA

The most followed International Organizations on 𝕏 1⃣ @UN 2⃣ @WHO 3⃣ @UNICEF 4⃣ @HRW 5⃣ @WEF 6⃣ @UNHumanRights 7⃣ @WorldBank 8⃣ @WWF 9⃣ @UNESCO 🔟 @Refugees #UNGA #DigitalDiplomacy

The Belgian EU Presidency ends today 🇧🇪 @LaurensSoenen shares some highlights of #EU2024BE with @Dante_Licona & @Luefkens in the #SoMeInsights podcast ➡️🎙️open.spotify.com/episode/1zL…

The city of @Paris is the first capital city on @Bluesky. ➡️🔗bsky.app/profile/paris.fr

Who is afraid of Elon Musk? It seems everyone is: corporations, governments, the media, and international organizations, no one wants to be in the cross hairs of his online antics. World leaders are in awe of the most followed and probably the most influential person on X. Few governments or international organizations have publicly reacted to the transformation of @Twitter to @X over the past year and the fundamental changes on the platform. When @ElonMusk demoted all 420,000 legacy blue badge Twitter accounts, briefly depriving officials of vital verification, none of the 350 heads of state and government and international organisations complained publicly on the platform. Musk is the most followed user on his own platform with 161 million followers and counting. To put this into perspective: he has twice as many followers as @POTUS and @JoeBiden combined. He has become an unelected leader presiding over a community of 260 million active daily users which would make it the fifth largest country in the world. Elon Musk knows that he is untouchable. He has not had any direct contacts with governments as he explained in an interview with Tucker Carlson. “I think people are a little concerned about complaining to me directly in case I tweet about it” he added. World leaders are bending over backwards to please the richest man in the world in the hope that he might invest and build a Tesla car factory in their country. In 2023 he met with French President @EmmanuelMacron, Indian Prime Minister @NarendraModi, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan @RTErdogan and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin @Netanyahu to name but a few. The discussions focused mainly on investment opportunities but not the management of his social media platform. Elon Musk is currently followed by 32 heads of state and government including the presidents of Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia, and Serbia and the prime ministers of Canada, France, Moldova, Mongolia, Pakistan, Romania, and Thailand. He is also followed by 28 foreign ministers and 17 foreign ministries worldwide. Eleven international organisation including Human Rights Watch, @UNESCO, the @WTO, and the @WWF are following him as do 25 leaders of international organisations. Public interactions between Elon Musk and governments on the platform are rare. When Elon Musk questioned whether the German government was aware that German government-funded NGOs are helping refugees in the Mediterranean, the German Foreign Ministry @GermanyDiplo replied laconically: “Yes, and it’s called saving lives.” German Foreign Minister @ABaerbock and her ministry have since diversified their social media presence opening accounts on @Bluesky, an @X competitor. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry @BelarusMFA on the other hand saluted Musk’s platform as “one of the last examples where free speech still exists”, proposing an online @XSpaces audio discussion to end the war in Ukraine. In April 2023 the Russian Foreign Ministry @Russia_MFA sent @ElonMusk ideas for a new logo for the platform: a dog swallowing the Twitter bird with the message: “From the very heart bru.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUA is definitely not afraid of Elon Musk. When Musk conducted a Twitter poll in October 2022 on whether “the will of the people who live in the Donbas & Crimea should decide whether they’re part of Russia or Ukraine”, the Ukrainian President conducted his own poll: “Which @ElonMusk do you like more? The one who supports Ukraine or the one who supports Russia?” The counter poll garnered 2.43 million votes and 78% favoured the one who supports Ukraine. Elon Musk replied: “I still very much support Ukraine, but am convinced that massive escalation of the war will cause great harm to Ukraine and possibly the world.” The relationship between international organisations and Elon Musk seems to have soured since the sale of Twitter which sent shockwaves through the international community. In early November 2022 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights @Volker_Turk issued an open letter reminding Elon Musk of the human rights responsibilities of companies to stop disinformation and ensure privacy and transparency and access to the platform’s data. “#FreeSpeech is not a free pass. Help us stop the viral spread of harmful disinformation, such as we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic in relation to vaccines. Don't amplify content that results in harm to people’s rights.” the @UNHumanRights organisation said. @Amnesty International posted publicly what many feared: “We at Amnesty International are incredibly concerned that within a week of taking control of Twitter, @ElonMusk has laid off Twitter’s entire human rights team and AI ethics team.” Elon Musk has repeatedly attacked the United Nations and @UN agencies on his platform but few of these have reacted to his antics. In June 2023 he claimed without further proof that “The UN is more likely to cause, rather than prevent, disinformation”. @UNESCO posted a rebuttal, inviting Musk to their #InternetForTrust Conference, an invitation he left unanswered. When Elon Musk stated in June 2023 that “Countries should make their own decisions and not rely on UN bodies like WHO”, the @WHO Director-General @DrTedros shot back a couple of hours later: “Countries aren’t ceding sovereignty to @WHO.” On the other hand, neither the World Economic Forum @WEF nor its chairperson @KlausSchwab replied to Elon Musk’s criticism that the “WEF is increasingly becoming an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don’t want” The common view among the diplomatic community is that you should not feed the trolls, and this obviously includes the chief of trolls and owner of the platform who seems to always have the last word. #DigitalDiplomacy – at Geneva, Switzerland