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.
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I have to assume this is part of a PR strategy wherein he claims to have been replaced by his evil twin from the mirror universe.
It’s a little late for that.
The hair restoration treatment is now out of control and he’s slowly turning into the wolfman.
He’s trying desperately to prove he hit puberty.
He has kids, so I can only assume this is to prove he’s a teenager at heart.
Looks like his pubic hair is likely just migrating for the winter
Tenorman: Alright alright, I’ll trade you my pubes back for the money.
Musk: You will? Oh, cool!
Tenorman: How much did I charge? Oh, yeah, $10.
Tenorman: You got change for a 20?
Musk: Oh, uh…
Musk: I only got six dollars and 12 cents.
Tenorman: Oh, well, that’s okay.
Tenorman: Here, just give me the six dollars and then I’ll give you the 20.
Musk: Okay.
Tenorman: Now, give me the pubes and I’ll give you back two dollars.
Musk: Right.
Tenorman: Now, give me the 12 cents And I’ll give you the rest of your change back.
Musk: Cool.
Tenorman: And then give me the 20 and I’ll give you the pubes.
Musk: Sweet!
Musk: Uh- Ah, Godammit!
Gotta round out the super villain motif…
Frittering away precious scalp strips to cover a artificial speed bump of a chin.
Time to ban Twitter and call it a day.
I deleted my Twitter at the beginning of this year. Never used it much, just followed a lot of metal bands on it. I don’t regret it for a single second. Everyday since, it’s just been one giant non-stop shit show. It’s sad to see so many still use it, but for my own good conscience, I can’t support that platform in any way. I avoid it like the plague.
I’ve only used it like 5 times to contact airlines. Their social media team seems better staffed and more helpful than the hotline. Tried using it in the early days, but the 160 char limit was a total turnoff for me. Felt like back in the 90’s with a 160 char limit imposed on text messages, and everybody using cryptic abbreviations. That almost triggered some high school PTSD. And when they changed that I was already too far immersed in other channels to get my updates to really bother trying again.
Musk is about to learn why getting rid of the content moderation department wasn’t very cost-saving to the operation of his platform.
Musk is about to learn
Aren’t you an optimist.
Hah, I think you have a VERY valid point. Musk truly, and I mean TRULY DOESNT CARE WHAT ANYONE THINKS.
he cares what people think - he wants people to pay attention to him.
I’m sure he’ll learn…the wrong lesson
Musk has made it clear that this was never about money. Er, at least not about Xitter making money.
Any updates on the situation? The 24h period must be done by now.
I have the same question. I hope the reply is published.
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.
Why would he not pay somebody to play?
He’s still playing that shitty game?
I enjoy Diablo IV and I think that’s okay. It’s a wonderful dopamine generator and a good podcast companion.
The fact that it’s online-only should be reason enough for no one to buy it and continue enabling this anti-consumer behavior. But whatever, no one cares I guess.
The fact that it’s online-only should be reason enough for no one to buy it and continue enabling this anti-consumer behavior. But whatever, no one cares I guess.
The fact that it’s online-only may be reason enough for you not to buy it. You don’t get to dictate what the rest of us do.
I’m not sure I understand why you consider online-only “anti-consumer.” It’s just the direction this series has taken. We don’t call any other requirements “anti-consumer.” I don’t have a graphics card on my PC good enough to support VR, does that mean Half Life Alyx is “anti-consumer” for being VR only?
At the time I understood the frustration the community expressed with Diablo III, but we’re well past that now. And network connections are far better now than they were then.
Does it limit Blizzard’s audience? Sure. Does it alienate some people who played Diablo II? Sure. But to Blizzard, the benefits in terms of design freedom, baked-in multiplayer zones, and anti-cheating capabilities outweigh that loss.
You don’t get to dictate what the rest of us do.
No one is trying to dictate what you do. I’m making you aware that your choices impact everyone else and expressing my dismay that you and other purchasers don’t seem concerned about the direction of this industry.
I’m not sure I understand why you consider online-only “anti-consumer.”
I mean it’s very simple. It benefits the corporation. It has zero benefit to the consumer, and several drawbacks, including the inability to play anytime there’s not an active internet connection (mobile), and the inability to play when the developer inevitably goes out of business or their servers go down, whether temporarily or permanently.
It’s just the direction this series has taken.
I don’t know what this means. It’s not “just a direction”, it’s an explicitly anti-consumer direction.
I don’t have a graphics card on my PC good enough to support VR, does that mean Half Life Alyx is “anti-consumer” for being VR only?
Uhhhh no? Why would it be?
But to Blizzard, the benefits in terms of design freedom, baked-in multiplayer zones, and anti-cheating capabilities outweigh that loss.
None of these have anything to do with requiring a server ping for single player modes.
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.
Little note: he doesn’t earn billions every day
oh, so sorry
$2bn in 2022 for non-US. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
Assume 80% of that is Europe, and a 25% drop in revenue since X, is $1.2bn, then 6% is $72m. This would likely be a daily fine of about $197K per day USD, minus shifty billionaire revenue reporting.
It’s 6% of world-wide turnover, not EU revenue. The neat part about turnover is that you can’t play shenanigans with accounting. It’s very unlikely to be the full 6% though and they will want to keep some headroom for escalation and even more egregious cases.
But yes this is absolutely “drive a company bankrupt” kind of territory and that’s precisely the intention. Either Twitter shapes up, leaves the EU market, or gets fined into non-existence.
Boy I hope the EU does something besides sit around with its dick in their hands.
What about the country where those megacorps are living?
“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.
I sometimes feel like the only person that remembers that DSA exists. It went into effect in August.
Doesn’t that only come into effect at the beginning of 2024?
If I understand correctly it’s a gradual rollout.
Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue.
I guess joke’s on the EU…
Because they aren’t making much money? Considering this isn’t based on profit but revenue, that’s a pretty significant fine
I hope they have the PR for when he misses the deadline already written up so they can just hit “Publish” when he fails to respond.
Nevermind fining Twitter. Elon will see it as a badge of honour and Trumpspin.
What the EU needs to do is block access to the website outright across its member states.
Ah yes! Censor the internet! That’s the solution!
Twitter is not the internet, its now a misinformation site that financially rewards that misinformation. The slow death of twitter prompted the birth of threads, bluesky and mastodon to name 3. One goes, three rise. And nobody is being censored - thats the point. What this would be is the consequence of their misuse of free speech.
Twitter is not the internet, its now a misinformation site that financially rewards that misinformation.
There are an awful lot of users who disagree with that and use it daily. I’m on there on and off all day to interact with my industry and the only misinformation I see is ads for games that have fake gameplay.
This is just more of the same “Elon bad” crap over and over. Seriously, you’re encouraging the EU to censor the internet like China does because space man is bad.
If you can browse Twitter without seeing a myriad of racial slurs and dogwhistles, you’re either browsing with your eyes closed or just don’t mind racism.
Onto the actual point
There’s a lot of people that agree that Trump wasn’t a complete liar. That doesn’t make it any less true that he was.
Still don’t think the internet should be censored, just think Twitter is a shithole.
Or you stay in your bubble, not seeing any algorithmic suggestion but only discussing with people you trust. Not saying it’s better but definitely one possible way to use it.
twitter has been the best place to get real time updates about both the ukraine war and now this israel v hamas conflict
i don’t doubt there’s a lot of questionable content on there, but the value in spreading information outside of “official sources” is huge. the first casualty in a war is the truth and governments would love to get rid of people spreading the reality of the facts on the ground
Yeah but when there’s a million and one people with zero knowledge on the situation parroting “facts” that’s called misinformation. Not to say that having a variety of viewpoints and sources isn’t important, just that a social media site where anybody can say or post anything isn’t the best way of getting it.
two days ago, there were reports going around online that 20 drones had entered israel from lebanon in the north. the information was coming from the IDF. at the same time, sirens were going off across all of northern israel. 1.5 million israelis were told to shelter in place. again, information from the IDF
right after this, rumors online started going around that the US government was evacuating their embassy in beirut, essentially implying that the war was going to spread to lebanon. a really big deal, if true
turns out those were false. the rumors spread about 30 minutes or so and then the embassy in beirut responded to this and said there was no evacuation.
moral of story? yes, misinformation spreads quickly. people are deathly afraid and fear spreads like fire. but it also gets debunked because there are people out there paying attention.
it’s sort of the idea of the open marketplace of ideas. bullshit spreads, but there are people out there dedicated to the truth. it’s a price we have to pay, otherwise we would be blind to these things.
Twitter is, like any other public space, filled with those you choose to follow and their friends, etc etc. If you follow people who post things you don’t like, we’ll that’s what you get.
I swear I’m not just making this up. I’ll gladly take screenshots of the first 10 pages of my feed anytime and you won’t see anything distasteful. You will see crypto scams and some crypto bros saying nonsense, but that’s no different from walking into a 7-11 in the city. Haha
Yeah. Exactly. Space man is bad. It’s not free speech to harm others. We are in the US where woman don’t have rights over their choices in many states.
What is this “free speech to harm others” narrative? Can you explain the logic on that one?
Ya and ban all forms of protest against apartheid.
That’s the EU and it would be the US too if we didn’t have the first amendment
We tried not censoring the internet and it hasn’t worked
If it makes you feel better, think of it as Europe defederating from Twitter
Whoever chooses which sites get banned from the internet has a whole load of power. They could feasibly, in time, become corrupt and end up banning threats to corporate monopolies, like the Fediverse.
So instead we allow known, unelected bad actors like Musk free reign, to protect us from hypothetical elected future bad actors?
They will become corrupt over time. Power and money yield corruption. Always.
Exactly. So I wouldn’t trust anyone with the power to dictate which websites you can visit and which you can’t
Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond
So kinda like… a Final Countdown?
The saudis might give him money to mitigate fines. I’m sure that’s not beyond him to continue with a misinformation campaign if the price is right.
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!
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.
Absolutely. We should never give the government the right to censor the Internet.
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