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.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    So what you’re saying it that you’re intolerant of opposing viewpoints and those that don’t childishly use cancel culture against somebody they disagree with…cool! At least you own it!

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      2 years ago

      So your username is telling me you constantly create new accounts because you can’t deal with the consequences of your speech? Lame, stop hiding from it with alt accounts.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        I’ve only ever had one, nice try though. You know what they say about assuming…

        Its random PERSON as in, on the internet, not acct. I love when morons like you accuse people of “hiding”, is your username your name? Huh, look at that, you must be " hiding".

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      use cancel culture against somebody they disagree

      LOL. Is “cancel culture” even a thing?

    • prole
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      Oh hey look, someone else who is pretending to not understand the paradox of tolerance.

      Believing that certain marginalized groups of people aren’t human (and/or don’t belong in society, and/or don’t deserve equal rights) is not a defensible belief, and people who are actually tolerant will not tolerate that.

      Tired of conservatives acting like they’re “just asking questions,” or behaving like they’re just presenting an opposing political viewpoint, and not advocating for genocide.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      “Your intolerance of intolerance makes you the real bigot!”

      Twitter is increasingly full of fascists. Fascists don’t deserve tolerance or respect. Of course there’s also all the Russian, Israeli, and United States propaganda bots, actual propagandists, plus myriad other reasons someone might object to the platform but yes, the strawman argument you fabricated is “clearly the only reasonable cause for criticism against Twitter”.

      Looking forward to your next strawman.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.

      If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.

      In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.

      Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.

      (Shamelessly copied from @itsOasus on Mastodon )