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X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/09/26/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.

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.

79 comments

MotoAsh

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"Excellent", responds Musk to himself.

jordanlund

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Musk looks at Facebook and Nextdoor... "WE'RE #1! WE'RE #1!"

pirat

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Never heard of Nextdoor. What is that?

davidisgreat

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I briefly used it. It connects you to all of your neighbors. It's good for knowing what's going on in your community.

Daft_ish

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Also good for finding out how many racists live near you.

Empricorn

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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!!!!"

jordanlund

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Oh, you would be shocked. Lots of vaccine disinfo for example.

seaQueue

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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.

Substance_P

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Strokes cat and maniacally proclaims .. . 43 BILLION dollars! Mwahaha..

seaQueue

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Fisk400

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That is the crispest Pikachu face I have ever seen.

Pips

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Crispachu

CrowAirbrush

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That's some high res looking pikachu, i stole it.

EternalNicodemus

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Crispy Pikachu

ExLisper

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Fine the fuckers till the fuckers ain't fine.

salvador

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Isn't the amount of downvotes a sign of presence of US/EU bots here?

zcd

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By design

ipkpjersi

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I am absolutely shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

joel_feila

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Well not that shocked

giacomo

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Twitter has always been the platform of smooth brains. It's not surprising it is all full of shit.

tetris11

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They used to moderate. Scientific discussion there was also top tier

YoBuckStopsHere

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Twitter could be a very different experience depending on who you followed. That's not the case anymore.

WashedOver

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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.

dangblingus

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Don't forget people discussing the virtues of Nazism openly!

rob_t_firefly

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And the article ends in the author's Follow me on Twitter.

Synthead

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Don't you hate it when you're trying to type and your Enter key transforms into a Fake News key?

!veryrealtechpics@lemmy.world

affiliate

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it’s better than reaching for a semicolon and typing a russian flag again

clearleaf

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Every X user: Yeah you tell em! Huh? Me? No I use the good parts.

einfach_orangensaft

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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.

MotoAsh

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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.

einfach_orangensaft

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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

MotoAsh

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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.

SatansMaggotyCumFart

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Musk is a government cum sock.

callyral

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onlinepersona

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Then stop using it? 😅 Promote your own instance and delete every EU government account on Twitter. Cowards.

rivermonster

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Being a threat to national security, this company should just be dissolved and its owner put in GITMO.

uis

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FYI: ~~x.org~~ I mean x.com is blocked in Russia by roscomnadzor. Here's to-fuck-list:

Putin
Musk
Spez

YoBuckStopsHere

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Duh

tswerts

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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.