And promoting disinfo. The blue checkmarks are basically just a way to pay for prioritized disinformation-spreading.

Please tell me that, as someone outside the EU, I also reap the benefits of this spicy awesomeness.

That could realistically be around 1/3 yearly profit in a reasonable company (18% operating margin is common). No idea whether Twitter is currently profitable (it wasn’t when he bought it).

It’s 6% of revenue, not profit. So it cuts even more into profits as it doesn’t allow a company in reach of regulations to reduce the impact of the fine by adding expenses that will temporarily lower their profit.

Even more spicy, they can also impose periodic penalties up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover for each day of delay in complying. That shit can bankrupt you.

You see, Twitter does that AND deliberately elevates far right conspiracies and other extremist content AND deliberately censors or at least delays opposing views.

I’m not saying that the EU shouldn’t also go after the other platforms you mention (they ABSOLUTELY should and probably will), but Twitter is tied with Facebook if not alone in first place when it comes to spreading disinformation.

If you cared to read the article, you will find that they also are investigating AliExpress, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.

Hey, did Nick Fuentes tell you to write that?

That would work against data harvesting (which Twitter obviously also does), but not against the spreading of disinformation.

oh no, what are they gonna do?? what are WE gonna do?? ;```````````(

When the vast majority spreads on several platforms, you can very much beat it by blocking it. We’re not doing it not because we can’t but because letting it spread is profitable. Prior to the invention of modern social media the problem of misinformation was much smaller. Yes of course it will never disappear but we don’t need it to disappear.

No, but he is finding out why twitter had all of its policies on combatting misinformation before he took over and gutted the staff… to prevent getting sued. You can say anything you want in America and the government can’t tell you that you aren’t allowed to say it, but you are still accountable for the damages caused by what you say… just ask Alex Jones.

But operating in other countries doesn’t afford the same protections from government scrutiny.

Disinformation campaigns are part of the reason social media is causing as much social strife in the world. It is not outside a logical line of thought that governments are going to attempt to minimize the damages from platforms like Twitter when they can. You mainly not beat misinformation, but you can minimize the financial incentive to promote it if you fine the fuck out of it when you find it.

Milo Yiannoppolous agrees with you, which is why he’s such a huge celebrity today.

The article states that the EU is objecting to a couple of particular things:

The EU said X’s blue checks policy was deceiving and had been abused by malicious actors. The checks were initially created as as way to verify users like government officials, public figures and journalists, in efforts to limit misinformation, but Musk changed that policy, allowing users to buy blue check accounts. The new policy has been abused by fraudsters to impersonate U.S. politician Hillary Clinton and author J.K. Rowling, among many other celebrities.

The platform also didn’t respect an obligation to provide a searchable and reliable advertisement repository and limited access to its public data to researchers, the Commission said.

This is not some amorphous campaign against disinformation, it’s a challenge to two specific policies of X.

The Autistic Community doesn’t deserve to mentioned in the same sentence as his.

Also, he just says he’s autistic. As far as is known, he’s never actually gotten an evaluation.

So he’s not just using autism as an excuse, he might not even have autism. And he wouldn’t, sadly, be the first to pretend he did to excuse his behavior.

At this point is there even a single country that Russia isn’t undermining? They are actively paying German far right politicians.