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X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news

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X to be investigated for allegedly Not Complying with EU laws on hate speech and fake news

www.theguardian.com /technology/2023/dec/18/x-to-be-investigated-for-allegedly-breaking-eu-laws-on-hate-speech-and-fake-news

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X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news

www.theguardian.com /technology/2023/dec/18/x-to-be-investigated-for-allegedly-breaking-eu-laws-on-hate-speech-and-fake-news

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God do I wish the UK was still part of the EU - cause then we'd be governed by at least some people with an actual backbone to speak of, rather than the corrupt Tories that racist dickheads keep voting in over and over
- As usual the UK will benefit from the EU without contributing or meaningfully participating.
  
  On the bright side, if our politicians are ever forced to concede and rejoin the EU, they won't have their grandfather privileges anymore, and will actually have to participate fairly like everyone else
- Eh those idiots would just keep pushing Brexit as a distraction, at least when the UK rejoins the EU, if they ever do, they'll have gotten the Brexit out of their system.
  
  I do hope it's a "when", cause it should be alarmingly clear to everyone who isn't a rich arsehole that being in the EU was to our collective benefit...
  Having said that, if it took crippling our economy for people to learn that lesson, then we're fucked on everything else steadily coming our way (i.e. climate change)
- Kinda OT but I was wondering, what's the proper collective noun for a group of bellends? A carillon?
Is there no one in his life that can tell Elon to shave that shit off?
- I looked at the preview image of him in disbelief, them was caught off guard by your comment being the first one shown in my client!
Does anyone know if filtering "X" also filters out any title that has the letter "x" in it from my feed?
E: using sync
- I think so, which is super annoying. Probably one of the reasons why he went with a letter, it's really hard to filter it.
Copy paste of my comment on this story in another community:
For those wondering:
The wide-ranging Digital Services Act (DSA) can fine a company up to 6% of its global turnover for violating the rules
Based on revenue in 2022, that means Twitter faces a $264 million dollar fine.
The DSA isn't the real danger for twitter. That would be NetzDG. From April, 2023:
The law, known colloquially as NetzDG, allows for fines of up to €50 million per case. ... Even just in Germany if the BfJ were to act on the 600+ illegal hate speech cases that have already been reported to it that could sum to fines of up to €30 billion for Twitter, based on the maximum penalties set out in the NetzDG law.
- mm that sounds juicy, fingers crossed
- With what Twitter is worth now, that fine would be akin to complete asset forfeiture.
- And based on my predictions, that’ll amount to about fifty dollars by the end of 2025.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is being investigated for allegedly breaking EU law on disinformation, illegal content and transparency, the European Commission has announced.
The decision to launch formal infringement proceedings against the company, owned by the US billionaire Elon Musk, comes weeks after X was asked to provide evidence of compliance with new laws designed to eliminate hate speech, racism and fake news from platforms in the EU.
Under the Digital Services Act, which came into force in August, a company can be fined 6% of its global income or be banned from operating across the EU if it is found to have breached the law.
In a statement, the European Commission said it had taken the decision to launch proceedings against X on the basis of its “preliminary investigation”, which allegedly concerned the “dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel”.
The EU will investigate whether search on X boosts blue tick accounts and spreads content that users might mistake as from verified sources in the pre-Musk service.
Earlier this year, Facebook, TikTok and the tech companies Google and Microsoft signed up to a code of conduct laid out by the EU to prepare for the new laws in the DSA.
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