European CommissionMay 27

150 citizens from across the EU have spent the past three months discussing how Europe can be better prepared for future crises.

Last weekend in Brussels, they presented 20 recommendations to strengthen preparedness, covering areas such as crisis communication, education, resilience, inclusion, volunteering, and countering disinformation.

Their recommendations will now contribute to the implementation of the EU Preparedness Union Strategy. 🇪🇺

Continue the discussion 👉 https://link.europa.eu/gghTvC

Show threaddocD
@EUCommission Tackle disinformation, starting with social media that are means for other countries to destabilize Europe. Why don't we have a powerful (there are plenty of small initiatives but scattered and hence insignificant atm) European alternative for TikTok, X, Facebook, Google, etc?
May 27 at 10:29amWeb
Show threadBloodaxeMay 27
@docdanny @EUCommission How would you avoid those European platforms just becoming propaganda-machines in their own rights? I think the only truly viable approach is the Fediverse (or similar initiative), where no central entity "owns" the SoMe/Protocol.
Show threaddocD6d ago
@bloodaxe @EUCommission Europe has better rules for privacy than the US. Will it be perfect? Nope, but better than what we have now. I didn't exclude Fediverse etc but to me it seems it has no leverage and is no counter weight for FB, X,...
Show threadBloodaxe5d ago
@docdanny @EUCommission If EU actually backed Fediverse, it would totaly have leverage against FB and X. The tech is not the issue, it's getting the people to use it - which would be the same problem for the EU regardless. Might as well build on top of something that is already there.