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The EU says Twitter/X is the worst platform for disinformation

On Tuesday, the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Vera Jourová, gave a speech discussing the progress made under the EU's strengthened 2022...

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The European Union has identified X, formerly Twitter, as the social media platform with the highest ratio of misinformation/disinformation posts. The news came just as X disabled a feature that allows users to report misinformation related to elections.

On Tuesday, the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Vera Jourová, gave a speech discussing the progress made under the EU's strengthened 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation. She singled out X as being rife with mis/disinformation.

X was assessed in a pilot phase in three of the EU's member states to evaluate a new testing methodology for discovering how easy it is to find disinformation content, how much engagement such content receives, and indicators about sources.

"These indicators – developed by the signatories - constitute an unprecedented and novel insight into disinformation on online platforms. Such insight is crucial to understand how effective platforms efforts are to fight this threat even more efficiently," said Jourová.

"Disinformation is not new, nor does it happen only on online platforms," said Jourová. "But with increasing digitalization, malicious actors have gained new ways to try to undermine our democracies."

"The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half-truth and lies to create a false image that democracy is no better than autocracy," she said.

Google said that between January and April this year, it removed more than 400 channels from YouTube that were involved in coordinated influence operations linked to the Russian-state-sponsored Internet Research Agency (IRA). Meta, TikTok, and Microsoft have also been pushing back against Russian propaganda.

"The Kremlin fights with bombs in Ukraine, but with words everywhere else, including in the EU," said Jourová.

 

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[funkygunther]

Definitely. Based Elon will fix it though.

 

[Hudo]

I mean, yeah. Twitter's (and Reddit's) business model is to be the garbage heap of humanity. Surprised that it took the EU so long to classify it as such.

 

[Skyfox]

I don't recall voting for this person. She doesn't speak for me.

Who decides what's "disinformation" and what's free expression?

 

[Party McHardy]

My For You feed is basically a documentary on the downfall of humankind and I can’t look away.

 

[kurisu_1974]

The EU should know

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I mean, yeah. Twitter's (and Reddit's) business model is to be the garbage heap of humanity. Surprised that it took the EU so long to classify it as such.

Banning that thrash platform should be next.

 

[AJUMP23]

I would assume it would be the nightly news. Or the EU itself.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Reading stuff off Twitter and some parts of reddit actually make me lose hope in humanity. I don't know if I should pray for their destruction, or be happy that the crazies have a place to be contained.

 

[Toons]

Not surprising.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Reading stuff off Twitter and some parts of reddit actually make me lose hope in humanity. I don't know if I should pray for their destruction, or be happy that the crazies have a place to be contained.

Social media in general was a mistake tbh,

 

[violence]

The creators wanted to take a poison pill till Elon saved their lives. He’s a hero.

 

[winjer]

The creators wanted to take a poison pill till Elon saved their lives. He’s a hero.

Twitter shareholders wanted to find a sucker that would overpay for the company. And they found one that exceeded their wildest expectations.

 

[Mistake]

Google and Facebook were openly promoting crypto scams when the ukraine war started, so singling out twitter isn't exactly fair here. I've seen plenty of cam girl bots, but not much else on twitter. And if the EU and other countries are so worried about "misinformation," maybe they should actually educate the public in civics and media literacy skills.
But that would undermine everything now wouldn't it?

 

[Nester99]

All Social Media is Poison, but frankly so is the EU parliament.

 

[Flutta]

EU says??? Lmao

Basically we want to tell you what to believe. We want a monopoly on information.

Also this is how it starts. Blame misinformation = implement new laws = censuring information, ideas, topics, discussions etc.

The internet will soon change for the worse.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

EU technocrats looking to only allow the "correct" narratives on the Internet of the future.

 

[StueyDuck]

Lol mainstream media had a poll and came to some facts .

It's 2023 everything is misinformation

 

[Trunx81]

It fits: The EU is the worst platform for ex-cons and nepotism.

 

[VN1X]

I don't recall voting for this person. She doesn't speak for me.

Who decides what's "disinformation" and what's free expression?

Exactly. EU ain't exactly the beacon of freedom of speech or not succumbing to disinfo themselves lol.

We arrest people for their opinions, use allegations to undermine political opponents and surveil the public on mass.

 

[Zok310]

I don't recall voting for this person. She doesn't speak for me.

Who decides what's "disinformation" and what's free expression?

People more educated than you, better credentials on the topic than you, people with shit load more money than you to conduct these research and finally people with more experience making these kind of decisions.
And thats its really.

 

[Kamina]

A platform charged with political extremism, reeking of bots and russian-created fake news?
Who would have thunk.