EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation
The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk to comply with sweeping new laws on fake news and Russian propaganda, after X – formerly known as Twitter – was found to have the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms.
The report analysed the ratio of disinformation for a new report laying bare for the first time the scale of fake news on social media across the EU, with millions of fake accounts removed by TikTok and LinkedIn.
Facebook was the second worst offender, according to the first ever report recording posts that will be deemed illegal across the EU under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in August.
Nevertheless, Facebook and other tech giants, including Google, TikTok and Microsoft, have signed up to the code of practice the EU drew up to ensure they could get ready in time to operate within the confines of the new laws.
Twitter left the code of practice but it is obliged under the new law to comply with the rules or face a ban across the EU.
All journalists should get off of it today. Right now. Not tomorrow but now.
All the journos I am aware of are on substack/bluesky/whatever else they're flocking to this week, and also on twitter, because of course they are.
Lol, funny watching the pawns go from one proprietary platform to another.
It's like they're all in on making someone else richer.
You are not smarter for using a different platform
Yeah, I'm smarter for not being taken advantage of to make someone richer.
Honestly, yesterday. As soon as the rebranding changed the past form of tweeting from twat the last thing of value on that platform was lost.
All the ones that have stayed have told everyone exactly what their real priorities are.