X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns
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X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns::The EU also called upon Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta to do more to tackle disinformation—much of it coming from Russia—ahead of upcoming elections on the continent.
"Excellent", responds Musk to himself.
Musk looks at Facebook and Nextdoor... "WE'RE #1! WE'RE #1!"
Never heard of Nextdoor. What is that?
I briefly used it. It connects you to all of your neighbors. It's good for knowing what's going on in your community.
Nextdoor? Is misinformation really being spread on a physical community app? "We had a package thief last week. I know they're tied to Hunter Biden and the Democrats! MAGA 2024!!!!"
Oh, you would be shocked. Lots of vaccine disinfo for example.
I mean, someone needs to engage with the bots on that platform and he's certainly not going to pay someone else to do it.
Strokes cat and maniacally proclaims .. . 43 BILLION dollars! Mwahaha..
That is the crispest Pikachu face I have ever seen.
Crispachu
That's some high res looking pikachu, i stole it.
Crispy Pikachu
By design
I am absolutely shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
Well not that shocked
Twitter has always been the platform of smooth brains. It's not surprising it is all full of shit.
They used to moderate. Scientific discussion there was also top tier
Twitter could be a very different experience depending on who you followed. That's not the case anymore.
I watched a recent clip of Musk from the Rogan podcast. He was asked if regrets buying it. He felt it was his duty in a way as it was run by extreme left wing types that banned everything from less extreme left wing through the center to the far right. Musk said they were censoring a lot of right wing views. He said when you are that far left anything including regular left is too far right for moderation.
It seems like they have abandoned most moderation now expect for the things he doesn't like. It's not free speech for all like they claim.
I'm fine with him moderating his social media platform the way he likes since he bought it, but don't claim its totally free speech and then do what he has been doing. I'm not a fan of the misinformation being shared there either but I don't expect them to be as good of a resource for open and free information anyways. There's plenty of other places for that, which are not governed by social media reaction metrics.
And the article ends in the author's Follow me on Twitter.
Don't forget people discussing the virtues of Nazism openly!
Don't you hate it when you're trying to type and your Enter key transforms into a Fake News key?
!veryrealtechpics@lemmy.world
it’s better than reaching for a semicolon and typing a russian flag again
Every X user: Yeah you tell em! Huh? Me? No I use the good parts.
noncredible take: musk is a us gov sock puppet and if x is like this then its because that allowes 3 letter agencys to lure certein ppl in security to speak so they can be tracked better.
This would be plausible if there weren't so many examples of the FBI utterly failing to pick up on strings of red flags on social media.
u saying there isnt the all seeing eye of the 3 letter agencys on everone online?
we may be biassed cause we only hear about those who slip thru the cracks
Why should it be acceptable for them to spy on everyone if they're not even going to successfully catch people who openly declare they will be violent, for days before the event? When people called the FBI to inform them the person might do something, the FBI responded with, "they're already on a list".
Yea... no. If they aren't catching ALL of the blatantly obvious ones ... fuck them. You don't get to run the show and then shit the bed.
Then stop using it? 😅 Promote your own instance and delete every EU government account on Twitter. Cowards.
FYI:
x.orgI mean x.com is blocked in Russia by roscomnadzor. Here's to-fuck-list:Duh
When Twitter was Twitter the same concerns were outed. Now X is Twitter minus 80% of its employees. From an economic standpoint it seems that investing in moderation doesn't give you less concerns and complaints from the outside regarding disinformation, more extreme content, ... . The advertisers have the most impact, I think. Together with the users that will look for an alternative.
Biggest so far!
This just in: Apparently, Lemmy was not included in the evaluation. lmao
Trying to correct misinformation on Lemmy be like:
I think many people prefer their own bubble over the harsh reality.
Well, about parts of the world which worry me the most (Armenia and Artsakh) the EC is the source of calling ethnic cleansing "voluntarily leaving" and the perpetrator "a reliable partner" sanctioning which "would be counterproductive yet". So maybe addressing that is more important.
And if it's not for somebody, then I'm sure that person understands the subjective weight of their opinion for me (about half a turd).
Really? Are we sure it's not our government?
EU is slowly replacing the role of NATO, as the entity that does so much finger waging and then roll over.
Stop with the warnings and just push for fines or blocks.
Weird take, what’s your beef? They most certainly do slap on huge fines, and are much more aggressive about enforcing privacy requirements than the US/etal.
This is kinda like cursing the worlds fastest sprinter for just not running fast enough.
Ukraine is proof that NATO isn't pointless. Zero chance Ukraine would've been invaded had they been part of NATO.
And the EU issues loads of fines lmao. I'm struggling to think of anywhere else more happy to issue fines to large entities.
The biggest sources of misinformation - EU and US - pointing finger to other souces as misinformation.
The information that reveals the ugliness and hypocrisy of Europe and US always gets called misinformation
Great mindless edgy soundbite, but this is patently false if given any type of thought.
You are correct in the sense that things demonstrating hypocrisy are mislabeled and hidden on purpose but we're talking about the much larger circle on this Venn diagram of any kind of misinformation.