The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over “widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation,” according to an internal note obtained by POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.
In a note sent to all heads of service and directors general, the Commission’s Deputy Chief Spokesperson Dana Spinant said disinformation on X, especially in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, had led the institution to “recommend to temporarily suspend advertising on this platform until further notice to avoid risks of reputational damage to the Commission.”
X has been under growing scrutiny in Europe as a result of the bloc’s new content moderation law, the Digital Services Act (DSA). The Commission, which enforces the law, in October sent a formal request for information to the company to explain how its handling of illegal content and disinformation connected to Hamas’ October 7 attack complies with the DSA.
Get fucking rid of twitter. I will never understand why people still cling to this platform, not in general, not after all the news, the bots, the right winged dipshits and everything else…what is so hard about it?
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You’re right that performi g agreement and disagreement are certainly not equal on Twitter, but there is also the concept of ratio-ing where tons of quote tweets and replies compared to few likes is usually a good indicator that people are disagreeing.
This actually says a lot about Twitter engagement.
The only way to disagree on Twitter is to publicly call people out, while Lemmy and Reddit allow you to disagree without repeating and amplifying what they are saying.
It has its appeals. Being able to mention anyone publicly in your messages gives people feeling of empowerment. This also made companies react far faster to tech support than they would otherwise because people would see others complaining and join in. So fuckups would be obvious and publicly available. There was a merit to it, but for the most part those benefits only provided fertile ground to cancerous behavior.
many parts of Twitter (qua Twitter) were good. “X” is fucking terrible though.
You are right, I always forget to switch to past tense.
Porn most likely, um waiting for some artists to. Join mastodon or bluesky even if I’m doubtful about that
So many journalists, particularly human rights activists and Ukrainian conflict centered osint types use Twitter. Blows my mind.
People are willingly supporting an antisemtic, right-winged idot like Musk and his platform for porn? i mean it’s the internet there is plenty of porn outside of twitter…
I’m just there for the porn at this point
Because it is a useful platform and has incredible people on there?
😂
What about the left winged dipshits?
I would agree on tankies
“Temporarily suspend.”
Of course. Just like Apple and IBM. Wait for the furor to die down and then go back to giving money to the Nazi.
“Temporarily suspend” in corpo speak is “we’ll consider coming back if you change the current leadership”.
They’re sending a message that they’re willing to work with the company if it (re)stabilizes.
Took them long enough.
I didn’t know EC even had ads. Not that I used
X11Xitter in last few years. And not that I used it more than few times.Noooo you can’t say things against Israel!!
