Imo the EU should finally block the shit out twitter instead of warning about it, this is getting dangerous.
The EU has legal processes that need to be followed for that. This is the starting point.
The legal processes usually involve not doing shit for extended periods of time.
Yeah but they’re strict, and Elon Musk can’t fake his moderation attempts. If the fines hit, they hit hard. The recent fines against companies from the EU have been pretty painful.
Sure, but the starting point should’ve been a while ago if you ask me. This isn’t the first time this asshole used his platform to push his disgusting agenda. But I guess people need to get killed again before they actually do something about it…
Downvote anything about X/Twitter. No one cares. This is a waste of bandwith. Delete the X app. It’s mostly pedos and racists at this point anyways.
No offense OP, no hate to you. Saw someone post a similar comment earlier and I agreed “yeah my life would be better if we just stopped pretending X is important”
I’d say highlighting the current failings of the platform in regards to current events is pretty important, especially given how large of a platform it still is.
Think of it like this: you have a large group of people hovering around a person with a bull horn shouting lies. Rather than pointing it out to those on the edge of the crowd and near to you, you let it go unchallenged. This will likely lead to bad and worse outcomes.
Is there ever a time disinformation is not spreading on X?
But hey, clearly the community at large does not agree with me (us). I won’t ask again, but whenever you guys think the time is right myself and 32 others are chomping at the bits to never have to think about X again.
No shit. Never had Twitter, never will, I’m so sick of hearing about it.
Agreed. Stop the spread of Elon spam. He needs useful idiots.
Cool sentiment but when basically every world government, every news organization, every content creator, every public figure, every corporation, etc, are ALL ON TWITTER, we kinda have to care what happens on Twitter.
At least until they leave it.
How do you forsee that happening if we don’t publicize the bullshit? There are ways to filter this shit on your end without making the rest of the world do it.
I don’t know anyone who posts exclusively on twitter and outside of journalists very few have exclusive content on twitter.
But like I said an hour and a half ago it was just a passing urge and I have no plans of commenting in the future pleading for people not to post twitter links. I’ll just let it die out when it dies out.
Although if you have any advice for how to filter a lemmy instance I would very much appreciate that as I haven’t really dug into the settings yet
like he’s gonna care
yeah, its like telling fox news they have an asshole problem in their comment section.
They’re not warning him that disinformation is spreading, because he already knows that and likes it that way; they’re warning him that they’re paying attention.
Here’s a video from a great independent journalist, Upper Echelon. He just released it and it specifically covers how disinformation thrives on Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnl9RWOvRY4
https://odysee.com/@UpperEchelonGamers:3/disinformation-has-a-new-face:f
He literally already got called out for spotlighting popular antisemitic and/or Russian disinfo disseminators
By design, no?
It’s xitter #1 feature.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a post on the site formerly known as Twitter, the bloc’s industry chief said “violent and terrorist content” had not been taken down, despite warnings - as is required by EU law.
Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union, did not give details on the disinformation he was referring to in his letter to Mr Musk.
“I therefore invite you to urgently ensure that your systems are effective, and report on the crisis measures taken to my team,” he wrote in his letter which he shared on social media.
His letter comes days after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel, killing hundreds of residents and taking dozens of hostages.
On 25 April, the commission named the very large online platforms - those with over 45 million EU users - that would be subject to the toughest rules, among them X.
Formed in 2016, the volunteer council contained about 100 independent groups who advised on issues such as self-harm, child abuse and hate speech.
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After? Also before and during.
