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...
Telegram says the app's source code has not changed, and its FAQ has been changed only to make it clearer how to report content on Telegram, including via DSA
Until yesterday, the first line of that FAQ said: “All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them.” … Bluesky: @natanael.bsk...
How pro-Russian groups exploit Telegram, which has 41M MAUs in the EU, below the DSA's 45M threshold, to spread disinformation on Ukraine, immigration, and more
Bloomberg :
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation since 2022 and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew in 2023
X's failure to slow the spread of disinformation on the Internet would have violated E.U. social media law, had it been in effect — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Daphne Keller / @daphnehk :...
Researchers: Elon Musk, who vowed to defeat Twitter's “spam bots or die trying”, has long benefited from “fanbots” boosting Tesla shares and deriding critics
official surveillance video of the states themselves—Facebook and YouTube would take them down as “misinformation.” You can see right away what they're terrified of—not misinformation but rather infor...