MADRID: Spanish environmental organisations, including Greenpeace, as well as university rectors said on Friday that they would stop using X, swelling an exodus from Elon Musk`s social media platform.

A string of institutions have turned theirback on the former Twitter after the world`s richest person used X to promote Donald Trump`s successful bid for the US presidency and clashed with European governments.

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Ecologists in Action said they were among `hundreds of organisations, groups, journalist associations and thousands of people` to quit X on Jan 20,Trump`s inauguration day.

Musk has made X `a danger for democracy` by promoting discourses `based on the ideas of the far right` and interfered in other countries` elections such as in Germany, they said in a joint statement.

`The constant generation of fake news` and growing `toxicity` also pushed the organisations away from X, which they said was silencing voices opposed to Musk`s ideas.

The Spanish University Rectors` Conference announced it would stop posting on X, also citing concerns about disinformation as well as `behaviour that diverges from democratic values` and `unethical management`.-AFP