The EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation::undefined
If it’s the worst for disinformation then it’s the best for information, right? Right?
The EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation
Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/100297-eu-former-twitter-platform-x-worst-disinformation.html
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
EU should block X. See how Lonnie responds to that.
Future headline: Lonboy threatens to sue EU
ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter*
I fucking refuse to let companies take ownership of letters. They already have everything else.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I simply call it Ex-Twitter - acknowledging the name change, but not simply adopting it
Jonna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Who, Lonnie? That’s what I call him.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“Remember, Free Speech is when I, and only I, can say whatever the hell I want!” - Elon Musk How is twitter still standing? Mastodon is the way of the future
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I sometimes wonder how much it would take to get people to leave X en masse. Maybe if Elon was posting Nazi propaganda?
Kage520@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope. I sent this article to my trumper friend and he said “yeah the eu is a horribly corrupt organization”. If Elon promoted Nazi propaganda they would be excited and embrace that too.
Maybe if something else big came along and everyone was like “you’re still using Xitter? Lol okay boomer” they might consider moving over. Maybe.
Venomnik0@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Not even. Remember he was funding people like Andrew Tate thousands of dollars. Nothing is gonna get these people out unless they get charged to use twitter
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lots of them surely will migrate to Mastodon when Elon releases that fee bs. Honestly, we should thank Elon for that. Thanks to him, Mastodon will become mainstream soon.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Honestly I’m surprised it didn’t become a ghost town like Tumblr did after they banned porn.
SuicideEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mastodon will go nowhere because most instances are run by losers who want to shield themselves from instances with different opinions and defederate from thousands of instances fir little reason.
The most likely replacement will be threads or bluesky
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So the replacement for something that everyone has heard of, is something that no one has heard of?
Are you the genius behind replacing Sierra Mist with Starry?
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It already was prior to Musk’s takeover.
It’s just always been a cesspool. A complete waste of human energy and time. And it never once turned a profit. An abject failure by every metric.
CosmoNova@feddit.de 1 year ago
It already was prior to Musk’s takeover.
It’s crazy how media pretends Twitter wasn’t the biggest contributor to Trump’s MAGA movement, being the most followed user on the site up until his fanatic followers stormed the US capitol. I mean did people already forget these dreadful years of “Trump tweeted” every single day??? Twitter has been an enemy to democracy for many years.
SMT42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know how you can say that was anti-democratic, though.
That level of open and direct communication from the sitting president is very democratic. Say what you will about the content of that communication, but Twitter did not act undemocratically by allowing the president to speak freely…
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it never once turned a profit.
Not true.
Twitter was profitable at the time when that Elon guy bought it (and before, and some time after).
AdamantRatPuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also you could follow actual people like artists and niche hobby groups. It had a purpose. I mean, a passable one. Not anymore
Gamey@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yea, if you tolled me that shithole could get any worse two years ago I would have laughed but damn was I ever wrong!
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We watching how daft Elon is in real time, and his fan boys and girls are still trying to tell us he’s smart…
Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
One of my coworkers swears he’s just the biggest troll and this is all some part of his masterplan.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s because he’s wanted to make X a thing since 2000. Even if he was being a troll, it’s not a joke if he’s just making everyone miserable. That’s not humour, it’s an anti-social weirdo and his dipshit followers thinking that hurting other people is funny.
PilferJynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A 42 billion troll. He’s King Clown in a hateful circus. Masterful.
DeadNinja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“…worst platform for disinformation…” ?
Is that a double negative, or am I hallucinating ?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Its just very weirdly written
espentan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
English professor: It’s impossible for a double positive to be negative.
Random student: Yeeeah, riiight…
nyoooom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Should “worst platform at handling disinformation”
DeadNinja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now that makes sense.
Myro@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Musk probably sees this as a confirmation it’s working as intended.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 year ago
When did we collectively decide techbro billionaires should be the arbiter of what is and isn’t disinformation?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
When we decided to gather in their websites in large masses and ignore our common sense
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
When we decided that freedom of speech was a core freedom, and the wealthiest people own the biggest megaphones. Musk’s Twitter is just a reflection of the same system that protects the Murdochs, Chatham Asset Management, etc. The bar for “this speech is illegal” is extremely high in most first-world countries, at least unless your disinformation can be shown to harm important corporations (fraud) or rich people with really really good lawyers (defamation) or the justice system itself (perjury, filing false reports), it’s basically impossible to fight. This weakness of the justice system was why everybody was happy to see amoral corporations like Twitter taking up the project pre-Musk.
Remember, the only people who managed to extract consequences for The Big Lie from the above organizations is Dominion Voting Systems, a huge corporation that could show damages.
As long as the facts of our shared reality are considered beneath protection unless they coincide with the financial interests of VIPs, shitty people with big megaphones will lie with impunity.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
A pension fund is standing in line to be next after dominion, because they’re investors and Fox hurt their investments by lying so badly that they had to pay
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, we gave the people with the money the power to decide everything else that’s important so why not that too?
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 year ago
This is completely unsurprising. Under the new "free speech" regime, X has been completely deluged with antisemitic, pro-Russia, and anti-democracy propaganda. It's no wonder that advertisers don't want to be associated with that type of content.
Kind@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech” Noam Chomsky
Gamey@feddit.de 1 year ago
You can’t drive away the Russian bots, then people would see how bad Musk truly fucked up!
WuTang@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
I think, you miss: LGBT-Z phobic, pro-oil and even babies eaters.
omgnvq@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Not sure if this is the right place but I need to get off Twitter/X, I would love to use Mastodon but the hurdle feels bigger than Reddit to Lemmy. The Mastodon client feels uncomfortable to me for some reason, and I guess unlike reddit/lemmy where you have a group of people talking about specific topics, I am interested in following specific people on Twitter - a fraction of whom are on Mastodon. I don’t want to support Musk or his platform but I’m struggling to find a replacement.
I guess if he starts charging for it the decision will be made for me 😅
Sharan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Come to Mastodon. Welcome 😁
Nesola@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could also use Ivory, it’s basically tweetbot but for mastodon.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Tusky is pretty damn good for Mastodon. Better than any Lemmy client I’ve tried.
ArghZombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People say that picking a server for Mastodon isn’t that important, but really I think it is. Because just a with Lemmy where you can view your Communities, Local and All it’s the same on Mastodon - your server is the Local feed made up of all the people on that server. So you can just read the whole feed of everyone that way, and is it’s a server based around a topic you like then it’s a great place. But if you pick a server based around Crypto or Dance or Sport then you’re going to have a dull time.
Yes you can find individual people, but it’s a lot more fiddly to find people that aren’t on your server. You kind of have to know who and where they are already.
That’s why the fediverse works better for Lemmy than Mastodon IMO - because it’s about whole topics than people.
eumesmo@lemmings.world 1 year ago
People told me that I could pick any server and it wouldn’t matter, but I noticed that not all the content in the communities I follow from other servers appear to me. It’s confusing.
Gamey@feddit.de 1 year ago
Tusky is my by far favorite social media app of all time, if you got a Android phone you should definitely try that! There are some truly cool people still stuck with Twitter but once you get into Mastodon you start to realize how much better the over all environment is, turns out social media doesn’t actually have to make you mad or sad! :)
lemmus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a (re)public(an) town square.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just fucking ban it already
Grant_M@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Muskovite works in the service of Moscow.
protovack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
if you think you’re going to get actual real information off any disconnected, internet based website in the modern world…i guess…grow up? all the regulation in the world won’t change it. the vast majority of internet traffic is porn and substanceless meming and shit posting. humans being human. and most of them believe they are involved in deep, important, change-producing activity while they are doing it. as they sit in their shitty apartment consuming electricity and oxygen, changing exactly nothing and helping no one.
charonn0@startrek.website 1 year ago
the vast majority of internet traffic is porn and substanceless meming and shit posting
Don’t confuse your personal experience with the general case.
Promethiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Disregarding the irony of your authoritative stance, as it is your opinion…It’s not only possible but better to do both?
I’m with you on the TL;DR that equals mindfulness is more work than virtue signaling, but did you consider that internet arguments,(communication) are as intrinsic to the human experience as porn and memeing?
You can work a job that helps others, volunteer in your local community, and practice mindfulness while attempting to elevate and spread good vibes to others.
I don’t recommend anyone try to do all of them at the same time, and in the case of jobs that’s not even a healthy consideration in the face of modern life pragmatics. Which we should change yes, but that’s another discussion.
Your observations are valid, and correct. For everyone. But it’s a “some of the time” thing; It takes practice and support to become the kind of person who can actively choose to put aside those coping mechanisms.
protovack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
fair enough! i shall humble myself :) and tell you that the last time I tripped on psychedelics, the idea of coming on the internet to…influence other’s opinions…seemed childish and naive to the extreme. I only come on here now in the hopes that one tiny number of people might see a comment and be motivated to “get off the internet” and do something “real”.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How did you come to the conclusion that people meming on the internet are trying to create a better place? They are probably only after recognition.
Kind@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Has the EU ever watched the media talking heads or read a newspaper, they contain government propaganda and intel agency talking points
Decompose@programming.dev 1 year ago
I read this as “X is the platform that shares all the information that doesn’t follow our authoritarian agendas”.
Good. That means X is serving its purpose: informing people of all available opinions in a crazy, leftist, authoritarian world that’s indicting speech.
cricket97@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noooo we need unelected bureaucrats to tell us what the truth is.
Gamey@feddit.de 1 year ago
Go back to Reddit, your delusional world view suites that shithole a lot better!
Decompose@programming.dev 1 year ago
Go fuck yourself. No one cares what you think.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just imagine one could complain about the last remaining posts of this dying platform!
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Surely it can’t be worse than Truth Social or Rumble… I’m assuming they main mainstream platforms
bstix@feddit.dk 1 year ago
(they’re not)
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The election misinformation seems to be the point. Why else would someone bankroll Twitter/X at this point?
uberdroog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This has been my thought the whole time. In general just to put down the effective communication ofbthe masses in real time that is scaryvtonabcertaim small group of people.