Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Time to ban Twitter and call it a day.
“Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, said in a letter addressed to Musk on Tuesday that his office has “indications” that groups are spreading misinformation and “violent and terrorist” content on X, and urged the billionaire to respond within a 24-hour period.”
Sounds like it’s just a strongly worded letter.
A bit below that it says that they’re also threatening fines of 6% of annual revenue.
Are they gonna give Twitter more money then? /s
You’re thinking of profit, not revenue
Hadn’t read the actual letter. It would be interesting to know what the specific request they have is.
6% of zero is zero.
Am I missing something? I said revenue not profit. Or is the joke that Twitter isn’t making any money anymore?
I think it hardly ever was profitable and even revenue should be quite dropping since it became X
6% of their revenue is probably still billions of dollars. Might even amount to the biggest fine ever.
I sometimes feel like the only person that remembers that DSA exists. It went into effect in August.
He doesn’t have time for that, after all he’s the busiest man on the planet and earns his billions every day.
Which is why his Diablo 4 Druid is level 100. Lol.
If your going to bash him, don’t do it for him playing computer games.
…there are plenty of proper reasons!
That’s not the point. The point is that oligarchs always go on about how hard they work, which makes them somehow deserve all the wealth they’ve swindled us out of. But if you work so hard, you won’t have time to sink endless hours into a game.
Bashing him for his choice of game is fair play.
When someone claims they are so work-focused that they sleep in the office and expect others to follow suit, finding out that they have a high level character in a game that’s only a few months old is worth bashing them over.
It’s not that Elon plays games, it’s that he pretends he’s too busy to do so and expects his employees to be too busy to do so.
Why do you know what level he has in some game? Why are people so obsessed with Elon in general? Ignore that clown.
He’s still playing that shitty game?
Little note: he doesn’t earn billions every day
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Go EU, Go!
I’m having real hard time trying to understand what kind of “misinformation and violence” is spreading on twitter, that isn’t on other social media platforms such as right here. I wonder what even counts as “misinformation” at this point, as you can make quite outrageous but factual claims about both sides (Israeli government and hamas)
This is the most confusing conflict I’ve ever paid any significant attention to, and it feels like the more I learn, the less I understand.
I would argue a major difference between misinformation on some place like Lemmy and misinformation on Twitter, is that Musk as owner of Twitter is amplifying this misinformation. Elon Musk frequently replies to people spreading misinfo and shouts out their accounts.
I like his new ‘defiant teenager’ style 😆
I will like him more when he, like some teenager, realizes there are consequences to his actions.
Oh no, no, don’t get me wrong, please.
I do not like him. I just like the style how he gets depicted recently, with the stubble etc.
Or else what, exactly? Until someone actually holds his feet.to the fire, the idiocy will continue.
I, too, think Elon is a dork, but I don’t understand this request. Is the EU holding websites responsible for the content uploaded to them? If so, is Lemmy responsible for all the anti-Semitic material? If so, I don’t understand how this is tenable. No social platform has the resources to monitor all content before upload. This would, effectively, ban all social media in the EU. While I don’t particularly lament such an outcome, I do feel we should at least evaluate such a decision. As of yet, this hasn’t been made clear. I’m not a fan of legislation by deception. If the EU is banning social media, I’d like them to be honest about it so we can discuss it like adults.
New EU regulations put more responsibilities on tech giants: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act
Lemmy instance admins are responsible for staying compliant with laws of countries they operate in, there’s nothing new about it.
Thanks for more info. I’m going to read through the Act when I have time later today. If I understand you correctly, and the summary, it appears that the EU just effectively banned social media in the EU. This was definitely not advertised to citizens in advance, and like it or not, many people like their social media. Given this, there are going to be some tough conversations in the coming months. This looks like an incredible legislative fuck-up, because a ban does not have anywhere near popular public support.
You should read it at your earliest convenience, as your preemptive conclusion that the “EU just preemptively banned social media in the EU” is absolutely not what the Digital Services Act is about.
You don’t understand correctly:
“The DSA proposal maintains the current rule according to which companies that host other’s data are not liable for the content unless they actually know it is illegal, and upon obtaining such knowledge do not act to remove it.”
No idea how you came to that wild conclusion lol
lol
An adult would go and check what EU wants and why.
To my knowledge, the current status of x formerly known as twitter, is that it is terrible. Elon has fired most of the staff, part of that staff was content monitors that should delete misinformation before it gains too much traction. The EU holds websites responsible if they don’t at least try dealing with it. Lemmy is not even a blip on their reddit, and would not even be easily threatened being a collection of random servers
Look, idgaf about musk or anything he does but why is it on him to fix misinformation on x? Why is it the job of the platform owner? Id really like it if someone explained this to me.
The way I see it, content on these platforms is user generated, misinformed or not, propaganda of one side or the other… If someone decides to put up a plain old text document and let everyone modify it, should the owner of said document really be liable for what others put on it? What if the document has no owner and is hosted in a peer to peer fashion? Who do we give 24 hours to fix it then?
The biggest question for me, is who determines what’s misinformation? Honestly, it’s determined by someone with a bias as to what is real information, and what is false. What if it was the Republicans in the US making that decision? It would completely change what’s considered misinformation. This is where the dangers of censoring misinformation come in. It’s all about who is making the decisions. Sure, you may agree with the people making the decisions now, but what about in 5, 10 years?
I’m glad that someone is fighting misinformation. What scares me, is if the right wing in the US starts trying to do the same thing. Can you imagine them cracking down on Facebook, X, etc for misinformation like the EU is doing? It would only be Biden conspiracies and pro Trump propaganda allowed. Good thing we aren’t giving our government that power.
He’ll fuck this up. I look forward to reading the EU’s chastising later today.
Let’s go Lonnie (you stupid piece of shit), Let’s go!
Who gave unelected eurocrats or billionaire techbros the right to censor the internet and decide what is “disinformation”?
The European Commission commissioners are confirmed by the EP.
If they are unelected, so it is every government of every members state. This “unelected eurocrat” rubbish is stale disinformation.
