Nikita Bier accuses the European Commission of trying to deceptively amplify the reach of its X post about its €120M fine of X; X terminates the EC's ad account
to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach. As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it seems you believe that the rules should not apply to your account. Your ad account has been terminated. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @EU_Commission Bullshit @eu_commission : Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the DSA. We're holding X accountable for: 🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ 🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository 🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers ↓ Elon Musk / @elonmusk : How long before the EU is gone? AbolishTheEU Elon Musk / @elonmusk : The EU Commission has destroyed countless life-seconds with their idiotic “accept cookies” pop-up! Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : @BigSky_7 That post format can only be run as an ad. They have not run an ad since 2021. FischerKing / @fischerking64 : Americans probably don't know the European Commission is an unelected executive body of the European Union, that also has the sole authority to propose legislation for the EU. The EU ‘parliament’ merely ratifies or rejects things. So the Commission proposes the rules, and Matthias Schmidt / @eurofounder : @EU_Commission €120 million made in one day. Regulation is the business model in the world, Americans can only dream of a success like this Larry Sanger / @lsanger : The idea that one could be *fined* for such things is ridiculous. Blake Scholl / @bscholl : Sometimes I worry that by the time we're done building a supersonic jet no one will want to go to Europe anymore. David Thunder / @davidjthunder : @EU_Commission If you read the full text of the Digital Service Act, you will see that it gives the EU Commission powers to fine and sanction Big Tech companies based on vaguely worded obligations like protecting “civic discourse,” combating “disinformation” etc. Essentially, a back door - more Michael Shellenberger / @shellenberger : You say it's not about censorship ("content moderation") but it is. You want to censor who gets verified. And you want X to give government-picked “researchers” special access to data so they can demand censorship. The Twitter Files revealed your censorship-by-proxy scam. @beaniemaxi : @EU_Commission Imagine posting about a fine on the actual platform you're fining. @sirkavok : This is bullshit. If they know of this “exploit”, why is it still there? Perhaps because it is actually a feature and a way to use the tool. This reaction comes from Musk's directives to promote his political and business interests, which are completely anti-Europe. Natalie F Danelishen / @chesschick01 : Just to show you guys what Nikita is talking about. When you tap on the video in the @EU_Commission tweet... instead of the video expanding it takes you to a article instead: [video] Adam Lyttle / @adamlyttleapps : New ad reach growth hack unlocked @fuckchrxs : the way the “exploit” they're talking about has been used by porn accounts for ages and they're only now fixing it because the took an L from the EU @potfes : Nikita (X) censors and bans an EU account because of an feature inside the Ad Composer. You cant make it up Erwin / @erwin_ai : Never leaving this platform @thoughtlesslabs : This is actually hilarious. The EU used a legit ad account to push the message they are suing x. They get their ad account banned for apparently doing a deceptive practice but get a ton of free impressions because top x employees quote it. Kind of a huge EU W tbh @autismcapital : 911? We'd like to report a body. [image] Damian Boeselager / @d_boeselager : The fact that the European Commission managed to find an exploit in x is as funny as the fact that x actually cares. Anyways, as long as Elon has his multiplier for his own content, this whole platform is a joke. So sad for the people who build Twitter. @bigsky_7 : @nikitabier tfw you ban someone for using your ad platform exactly as designed but call it an “exploit” when they do it better than you expected Daniel McAuley / @_dmca : the hero we need Bluesky: Jon Worth / @jonworth.eu : P.S. X has itself stopped the Commission paying for advertising on X. — Also the notion the Commission was exploiting a bug in the ad dashboard 😂 — www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... [image] Graham Simpson / @grahambs : Why is anyone still using X? — www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... Paul Rietschka / @prietschka : Fascinating how anyone is still active on a platform with no moderation owned by a mentally ill drug addict white nationalist. [embedded post] @852dude : Yes. Because canceling their ad account definitely wont result in additional fines. — Galaxy brain genius over here. — www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... Michiel van Hulten / @michielvanhulten.eu : The real question this raises is: why are the EU institutions still active on X at all? www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... Fella Bonkus Maximus / @maximus76a : These toxic platforms should be banned throughout Europe unless they follow European laws and pay their fines. — It's clear that 🇺🇸 wants to divide Europe to bully individual countries. F*** that. F*** 🇺🇸 — Right? @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social … @bremaininspain.com : What a shame. change over to Bluesky #EuropeanCommission! — X axes EC's ad acc. after €120M EU fine — Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.” Catio Miles / @catiomiles : What a sore loser Elon is. — And he's going to lose even more money with this move and the EU will save cash. — 😂😂😂😂 — www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... Rob Francis / @robfranciseu : I'm surprised the commission still posts on X. I'm even more surprised they have an ad account www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... Glyn Moody / @glynmoody : great news; now spend that money elsewhere supporting truth and freedom of expression, not nazi lies... [embedded post] Robin Berjon / @robin.berjon.com : The true scandal here is that the @ec.europa.eu has an advertising account on X. Why are our taxes used to finance Nazi propaganda? — www.politico.eu/article/x-ax... Mastodon: Peter / @peter@thepit.social : pretty crazy that the EU was **paying Elon Musk** for advertising. https://www.politico.eu/... Petar Toushkov / @cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu : This kind of circular causality is exactly the reason why I don't have even a burner account on X. As a social website, it went belly up more times than its owner's talk of colonizing anything in space. — X axes European Commission's ad account after €120M EU fine - POLITICO … Jan Penfrat / @ilumium@eupolicy.social : The news that #X has suspended the #EU's advertising account on the platform after it issued a 120m EUR fine against X for breaking the #DSA is beyond hilarious. — And it might even be kind of good in the sense that politicians in Europe maybe finally realise how shitty it is to depend on such a lunatic for its public communications. … Ian Betteridge / @ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net : Does anyone seriously believe a single word that comes out of the mouth of anyone connected with X? — https://www.politico.eu/... Paul Schoonhoven / @vosje62@mastodon.nl : X axes European Commission's ad account after €120M EU fine - POLITICO — https://www.politico.eu/... If you wondered why EU Commission was still sponsoring Twitter... Musk seems to be a bad loser.. — (But we knew that already...) — (Via @AnnaAnthro & @edgeofeurope ) — [image] @slothrop@chaos.social : LOL. This moment had to come eventually, but it's definitely funny: — https://www.politico.eu/... Hey @EUCommission you probably appreciate that nothing like this can happen here on the Fedi, right? — Maybe time to lean into that digital sovereignty we keep hearing about? Forums: r/europe : X deactivates European Commission's ad account after the company was fined €120M r/EU_Economics : X deactivates European Commission's ad account after the company was fined €120M | TechCrunch r/technology : X axes European Commission's ad account after €120M EU fine r/EU_Economics : X terminates EU Commission ad account for taking advantage of an exploit to “artificially increase its reach.” r/worldnews : X axes European Commission's ad account after €120M EU fine