X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news
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EU launches proceedings against Elon Musk’s social media platform under new Digital Services Act

X to be investigated for allegedly Not Complying with EU laws on hate speech and fake news::EU launches proceedings against Elon Musk’s social media platform under new Digital Services Act

  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    122·
    11 months ago

    If the EU will be the one to take this cunt down a peg then great. But I won’t get my hopes up that this doesn’t end with a slap on the wrist and money changing hands to make it go away.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Twitter is just burning money every minute as it is. Even if the EU only fines them a symbolic 1 Euro, it’s going to keep losing money. The important thing is that the fines / punishments will probably get bigger if Twitter continues to break the rules, so it’s likely going to stop.

      How’s it going to stop? A responsible, intelligent company would hire moderators and chase off the Nazis. But, Musk will most likely just make Twitter unavailable in Europe. That will just accelerate the doom spiral.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      The fine will likely be a percentage of annual global turnover… since twitter doesn’t make much money it won’t be a huge fine relative to the amount of money Musk has, however it’ll just make it that much harder to become profitable and the bad publicity will cause problems.

      Best case scenario is they comply with the law and maybe the X network will be good again. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that though.

  • scorpious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    11 months ago

    Every single person still using this hypoicrite’s cesspool is directly responsible for the cancer it causes. Period.

    No one needs to do anything about anything… Just

    STOP

    USING

    IT

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    21·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is being investigated for allegedly breaking EU law on disinformation, illegal content and transparency, the European Commission has announced.

    The decision to launch formal infringement proceedings against the company, owned by the US billionaire Elon Musk, comes weeks after X was asked to provide evidence of compliance with new laws designed to eliminate hate speech, racism and fake news from platforms in the EU.

    Under the Digital Services Act, which came into force in August, a company can be fined 6% of its global income or be banned from operating across the EU if it is found to have breached the law.

    In a statement, the European Commission said it had taken the decision to launch proceedings against X on the basis of its “preliminary investigation”, which allegedly concerned the “dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel”.

    The EU will investigate whether search on X boosts blue tick accounts and spreads content that users might mistake as from verified sources in the pre-Musk service.

    Earlier this year, Facebook, TikTok and the tech companies Google and Microsoft signed up to a code of conduct laid out by the EU to prepare for the new laws in the DSA.

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