Mastodawn

Did w-social.eu get taken down because of trademarks? Domain doesn't resolve anymore.

Dear Fedi friends, I need your help.

If by any chance any of you have saved the video of #WSocial CEO Anna Zeiter's presentation at the Monaco AI conference (uploaded to YouTube on May 21) I would be ETERNALLY grateful.

OG URL: https://youtu.be/xDNGHaISqs4

The 35 minute video included priceless quotes like: "Yes we have a business model, it's not a philanthropy, we are not a B corp, we actually want to make money."

Following the publication of my exposé, the video has been removed from YouTube!

Katika Kühnreich 9h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116737190519372564

#AnnaZeiter said in the #SWR #interview that she doing a top-down approach - and not the #Mastodon #grassroots - it is definitely working out for her and #wsocial

#tech #sovereignty #europeansovereignty #bigtech #realnameregistration #surveillance

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Jonas Sulzer 10h ago

@_elena

Oh wow! That clearly doesn't make this WSocial case any better... ^

Since you've said you'll be writing about it, but I've not yet seen an article about it from you, I think this could be of interest to you, @adfichter

#WSocial

Jonas Voss 10h ago

Det europæiske SoMe tiltag #wsocial skaber lidt røre i fedidammen disse dage. EU-kommissionen er flyttet fra OG Bluesky til den PDS der tilhører wsocial. En bruger har lavet ret omfattende graverarbejde om wsocial:

https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116735947449480607

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Elena Rossini 🌈11h ago

File under: #WSocial shenanigans

I was alerted by @usti that the video of the Monaco AI conference presentation by W Social CEO Anna Zeiter was removed from their YouTube channel. You know, the video that I referenced in my second exposé about W Social, quoted extensively (because some of her statements were truly shocking).

This is the only video that was removed from their channel. I thought I had downloaded a copy to my computer... but hey, proof from the Wayback Machine of its existence

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Wordmark 13h ago

@BjornW @EUCommission

#wsocial itself is not entirely #opensource, but it is built on the AT Protocol (#ATproto), which is an open, decentralized technology, if there is no public repo, its #nogood

@[email protected]16h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116735947449480607

A warning from Elena on W Social & @EUCommission.

Why would an institute like the European Commission ever want to 'rent' a social media account instead of owning their own server is beyond me.
If you're not the owner you do not control your messaging. We cannot verify the validity & authenticity of your message, which is quite important for political institutions I'd say. It can be done correctly, e.g. the Dutch government's social.overheid.nl server.

#Politics #EU #WSocial #SocialMedia

Matthias 16h ago

Werden Sie Zeuge erfolgreichen Lobbyismus in Echtzeit.
#wSocial
RE: mastodon.social/users/_elena/s…

Elena Rossini 🌈16h ago

Dear Fedi friends,

Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.

The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.

I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.

My articles on them:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/

Wow. Just wow.

W Social - Elena Rossini

A series of articles about the controversial social network W Social, a for profit company set up by Swedish entrepreneurs, who openly admitted they want to help train European AI models with their users' data (amongst other things).

Elena Rossini