The EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation::undefined
When did we collectively decide techbro billionaires should be the arbiter of what is and isn’t disinformation?
When we decided to gather in their websites in large masses and ignore our common sense
When we decided that freedom of speech was a core freedom, and the wealthiest people own the biggest megaphones. Musk’s Twitter is just a reflection of the same system that protects the Murdochs, Chatham Asset Management, etc. The bar for “this speech is illegal” is extremely high in most first-world countries, at least unless your disinformation can be shown to harm important corporations (fraud) or rich people with really really good lawyers (defamation) or the justice system itself (perjury, filing false reports), it’s basically impossible to fight. This weakness of the justice system was why everybody was happy to see amoral corporations like Twitter taking up the project pre-Musk.
Remember, the only people who managed to extract consequences for The Big Lie from the above organizations is Dominion Voting Systems, a huge corporation that could show damages.
As long as the facts of our shared reality are considered beneath protection unless they coincide with the financial interests of VIPs, shitty people with big megaphones will lie with impunity.
“Remember, Free Speech is when I, and only I, can say whatever the hell I want!” - Elon Musk
How is twitter still standing? Mastodon is the way of the future
I sometimes wonder how much it would take to get people to leave X en masse. Maybe if Elon was posting Nazi propaganda?
Not even. Remember he was funding people like Andrew Tate thousands of dollars. Nothing is gonna get these people out unless they get charged to use twitter
If it’s the worst for disinformation then it’s the best for information, right? Right?
This is completely unsurprising. Under the new “free speech” regime, X has been completely deluged with antisemitic, pro-Russia, and anti-democracy propaganda. It’s no wonder that advertisers don’t want to be associated with that type of content.
I think, you miss: LGBT-Z phobic, pro-oil and even babies eaters.
I read this as “X is the platform that shares all the information that doesn’t follow our authoritarian agendas”.
Good. That means X is serving its purpose: informing people of all available opinions in a crazy, leftist, authoritarian world that’s indicting speech.
No one owns a monopoly on the truth.
Muskovite works in the service of Moscow.
EU should block X. See how Lonnie responds to that.
Future headline: Lonboy threatens to sue EU
