Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
X allows China-based propaganda banned on other platforms — 81 campaign accounts falsely posing as Americans are still active on X, after being flagged last November::X accused of overlooking propaganda flagged by Meta and criminal prosecutors.
Well you gotta cut X a break. They’re inexplicably understaffed.
Cut all brakes while you’re there
I’m tired and I immediately thought “Ctrl+X is cut, so “cut X” must have something to do with it”.
The site’s owner is knees deep into the Chinese economy. Much more than any other billionaire outside of China at this moment. This is why infrastructure (and Xitter is pretty much used as such in many parts of the world including Europe and the US) shouldn‘t be allowed to be sold to a single owner. But oh no no no… regulations? That‘s cOmMuNiSm!1 Guess we have no choice but to let… Chinese communist party propaganda go rampant on our internet so we don‘t end up with… communism.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement to tamp down on “propaganda accounts controlled by foreign entities aiming to influence US politics,” The Washington Post reported.
Meta, Google, and then-Twitter began coordinating takedown efforts with law enforcement and disinformation researchers after Russian-backed influence campaigns manipulated their platforms in hopes of swaying the 2016 US presidential election.
The Post’s report also provided an exclusive analysis from the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), which found that 86 propaganda accounts that Meta flagged last November “are still active on X.”
The accounts also comment on hot-button topics like the fentanyl problem or police brutality, seemingly to convey “a sense of dismay over the state of America without any clear partisan bent,” Elise Thomas, an analyst for a London nonprofit called the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told The Post.
“The presence of these accounts reinforces the fact that state actors continue to try to influence US politics by masquerading as media and fellow Americans," DiResta told The Post.
Yesterday, X joined Amazon, Google, Meta, OpenAI, TikTok, and other Big Tech companies in signing an agreement to fight “deceptive use of AI” during 2024 elections.
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
X basically has one rule. Don’t get a post to trend by calling out Elon’s bullshit.
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 8 months ago
If you really think about it X reallybis the ideal no censor platform. Except you can’t harm the musk though.