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X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns (www.forbes.com)
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X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns::The EU also called upon Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta to do more to tackle disinformation—much of it coming from Russia—ahead of upcoming elections on the continent.

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 120 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"Excellent", responds Musk to himself.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Musk looks at Facebook and Nextdoor... "WE'RE #1! WE'RE #1!"

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of Nextdoor. What is that?

[–] davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I briefly used it. It connects you to all of your neighbors. It's good for knowing what's going on in your community.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also good for finding out how many racists live near you.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nextdoor? Is misinformation really being spread on a physical community app? "We had a package thief last week. I know they're tied to Hunter Biden and the Democrats! MAGA 2024!!!!"

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Oh, you would be shocked. Lots of vaccine disinfo for example.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I mean, someone needs to engage with the bots on that platform and he's certainly not going to pay someone else to do it.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Strokes cat and maniacally proclaims .. . 43 BILLION dollars! Mwahaha..

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago (3 children)

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is the crispest Pikachu face I have ever seen.

[–] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago

Crispachu

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

That's some high res looking pikachu, i stole it.

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fine the fuckers till the fuckers ain't fine.

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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 41 points 10 months ago

By design

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am absolutely shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Well not that shocked

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Twitter has always been the platform of smooth brains. It's not surprising it is all full of shit.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 35 points 10 months ago

They used to moderate. Scientific discussion there was also top tier

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Twitter could be a very different experience depending on who you followed. That's not the case anymore.

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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

And the article ends in the author's Follow me on Twitter.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

Don't forget people discussing the virtues of Nazism openly!

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't you hate it when you're trying to type and your Enter key transforms into a Fake News key?

!veryrealtechpics@lemmy.world

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

it’s better than reaching for a semicolon and typing a russian flag again

[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Every X user: Yeah you tell em! Huh? Me? No I use the good parts.

[–] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

noncredible take: musk is a us gov sock puppet and if x is like this then its because that allowes 3 letter agencys to lure certein ppl in security to speak so they can be tracked better.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This would be plausible if there weren't so many examples of the FBI utterly failing to pick up on strings of red flags on social media.

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Then stop using it? 😅 Promote your own instance and delete every EU government account on Twitter. Cowards.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

FYI: ~~x.org~~ I mean x.com is blocked in Russia by roscomnadzor. Here's to-fuck-list:

  1. Putin
  2. Musk
  3. Spez
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