Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X

Time to ban Twitter and call it a day.

I am so sick of seeing his face everywhere. I’m blocking everyone.

Is he ... is Musk growing an evil goatee?

Musk is about to learn why getting rid of the content moderation department wasn't very cost-saving to the operation of his platform.

"Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, said in a letter addressed to Musk on Tuesday that his office has “indications” that groups are spreading misinformation and “violent and terrorist” content on X, and urged the billionaire to respond within a 24-hour period."

Sounds like it's just a strongly worded letter.

He doesn't have time for that, after all he's the busiest man on the planet and earns his billions every day.

Which is why his Diablo 4 Druid is level 100. Lol.

Boy I hope the EU does something besides sit around with its dick in their hands.

Go EU, Go!

$2bn in 2022 for non-US. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

Assume 80% of that is Europe, and a 25% drop in revenue since X, is $1.2bn, then 6% is $72m. This would likely be a daily fine of about $197K per day USD, minus shifty billionaire revenue reporting.

Any updates on the situation? The 24h period must be done by now.

Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue.

I guess joke's on the EU....

I hope they have the PR for when he misses the deadline already written up so they can just hit "Publish" when he fails to respond.

I'm having real hard time trying to understand what kind of "misinformation and violence" is spreading on twitter, that isn't on other social media platforms such as right here. I wonder what even counts as "misinformation" at this point, as you can make quite outrageous but factual claims about both sides (Israeli government and hamas)

This is the most confusing conflict I've ever paid any significant attention to, and it feels like the more I learn, the less I understand.

The saudis might give him money to mitigate fines. I’m sure that’s not beyond him to continue with a misinformation campaign if the price is right.

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Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond

So kinda like... a Final Countdown?

Elon is okay with it since it suits him.

I like his new 'defiant teenager' style 😆

He'll fuck this up. I look forward to reading the EU's chastising later today.

Let's go Lonnie (you stupid piece of shit), Let's go!

I'm glad that someone is fighting misinformation. What scares me, is if the right wing in the US starts trying to do the same thing. Can you imagine them cracking down on Facebook, X, etc for misinformation like the EU is doing? It would only be Biden conspiracies and pro Trump propaganda allowed. Good thing we aren't giving our government that power.

Ok, it's been 24 hours, anyone have an update?

Or else what, exactly? Until someone actually holds his feet.to the fire, the idiocy will continue.

I, too, think Elon is a dork, but I don’t understand this request. Is the EU holding websites responsible for the content uploaded to them? If so, is Lemmy responsible for all the anti-Semitic material? If so, I don’t understand how this is tenable. No social platform has the resources to monitor all content before upload. This would, effectively, ban all social media in the EU. While I don’t particularly lament such an outcome, I do feel we should at least evaluate such a decision. As of yet, this hasn’t been made clear. I’m not a fan of legislation by deception. If the EU is banning social media, I’d like them to be honest about it so we can discuss it like adults.

You gimuyd are on some wikd shit im history

As much as I hate disinformation on the internet and witnessed what it can do to people. I am very cautious when governments place themselves as the arbiters of truth. we should fight for the freedom of speech even when it is contrary to our beliefs. disinformation should be fraught against with facts and transparency.

Look, idgaf about musk or anything he does but why is it on him to fix misinformation on x? Why is it the job of the platform owner? Id really like it if someone explained this to me.

The way I see it, content on these platforms is user generated, misinformed or not, propaganda of one side or the other... If someone decides to put up a plain old text document and let everyone modify it, should the owner of said document really be liable for what others put on it? What if the document has no owner and is hosted in a peer to peer fashion? Who do we give 24 hours to fix it then?

24 hours for Elon Musk to replace the truth he's said with a lie which Europe would like to hear.

I hate this word disinformation so much. We cannot censor any information on the internet even if it's a total bulshit. I'm on Lemmy cause there is no censorship and everyone should think about that nowadays. Anything you post online can have legal consequences and that's complete bulshit squared. #freespeach

Who gave unelected eurocrats or billionaire techbros the right to censor the internet and decide what is "disinformation"?