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EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

www.theguardian.com EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

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EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

www.theguardian.com /technology/2023/sep/26/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-x-must-comply-with-fake-news-laws

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation

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Oh ffs, stop warning him, he already knows and still does not comply. He does not care. Just throw the hammer at him, this he will understand.
- Don't worry, EU strikes very slowly, but hard.
  
  Can we not do this? It's so pathetic.
  Just like how the US supposedly, "grinds slow but grinds fine". No. A literal traitor having YEARS of freedom is NOT justice of any sort. Warning a rich piece of shit that they're violating laws for the 1100th time IS NOT justice.
  Stop pretending laws are applied remotely evenly or remotely expeditiously on the rich. It's blatantly and obviously not true.
  
  checks watch. Again.
  
  "You haff ignored the requisite 10 varnings. You only haff three more varnings before ve vill be forced to fine you €6B"
- I’m just happy to see the EU take these important first steps towards actually punishing him and others like him. They’re the only governmental organization around the world that’s actually doing something thoughtful.
  
  China has been doing it for years
- You're missing the part where Musk owns half of them. They meet privately with him to kiss his feet when they visit the UN

In before Musk calls EU a pedophile.
- I mean, he likes to defend pedophiles!

He knows, it's why he bought twitter.
- It's also why he bought half of the European leaders
  
  Today is good day to stop sniffing glue.
  
  He didn't need to buy them off, they're all neoliberal shitheads, they'd lick his ass for free.

🤞 Please let him be imprisoned by some obscure German anti Nazi law please🤞
- If they’re gonna do that they need to start with the AfD
- Twitter actually got sued in Germany for failure to moderate hate speech already, that could cost him 33 billion euros!
- You realize Americans are not subject to German law, yes?
  
  That's ... not how reality works. Sure, a rich guy isn't going to get it, but if you do something bad enough in Germany and run to the US, the US will ABSOLUTELY ship you back to Germany so that you can be under the jurisdiction of their laws. Even if you were a US citizen.
  
  Realize? Yes. Holding the thinnest shred of hope for some forgotten treaty agreement? Also yes.
  I'd also settle for any country telling him to fuck right off with any of his business if he continues to be a bag of shit. That might also work.
- Are you kidding? Half of the European leaders met privately with him while visiting the UN. This is all talk, they're not gonna do anything to Musk cause he owns half of them, or they're at least trying to keep him happy so he'll build a Tesla plant in their country
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66777096.amp
  
  Nonsense
  
  Sadly you're probably right on the money, especially the Germans+Auto Industry. One can dream at least

I really hope Elon given the ultimatum would go for the nuclear option and shut down Twitter in Europe.
It wouldn't even be out of character, I can imagine him vomiting some "free speech" nonsense on his way out.
The company stock price would halve, but at the speed it is already going down it wouldn't even register.
- The company stock price would halve.
  Elon took it private, it doesn't have a stock price anymore. But it does have a valuation, which is basically it's appraisal value, and that's already significantly lower than what he paid for it.
  
  It was valued at roughtly a third but that was before the rebrand, now it's probably quite a bit lower!

Why does anyone even still use it? I never saw the appeal even before the takeover, now it baffles me. It's such a horrible interface
- Yes the interface makes no sense, you can't tell who's replying to who. Sometimes the replies are above the comment they're replying to, sometimes below. Still it's a good place to get information that's censored by America's great firewall, which is why this article is a case in point.

Don’t warn. Act. Fine him. It won’t hurt him much, but would generate additional funds for European needs. Actively create Fediverse accounts that interact with the public. And so on…

Maybe they should stop making small fines of $ millions and start applying $$$ billions in fines.

nothing like a stern warning to swiftly correct a billionaire megalomaniac destructive antics in my experience.

X, now rated #1 in disinformation!

That's it Mr. Musk, sir. You're officially on notice. (I hope that's ok, sir?)

I've been following Scott Adams (The Dilbert guy. No, not Jim Davis. The Dilbert guy!) and this is obviously misinformation and a hoax. The only accurate news comes from X. If you still get your news from the leftist media, you're being brainwashed.
(obviously sarcasm. Downvote me for following Adams, not for misunderstanding my sarcasm.)
- Scott Adams? You mean the guy who writes books about obvious self-insert characters who are so much smarter than everyone else because they are influencers?
  
  I was so Happy (capital intended) when he was featured on Behind the Bastards. I didn't think he was interesting enough to merit even one episode, but now the host is reading Scott's books, and they are complete dogshit.
  Scott's rationalwiki entry is a joy to read.
- Follow him to hell?
  
  Kind of, but only on Twitter so far.

Elon Musk: "this is a feature, not a bug"

Ban, or ban not. There is no warn.

Late stage enshitification

Because fighting against disinformation has always been about fighting for the control of the narrative
Big up to all the bots in the comments.

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