[flagged]
Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
11–20 of 141 posts
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#12Not flagging because it is more interesting than usual for a link about Twitter:
it's the first time the law is used, and it also _strongly_ hint that they tried first to get access to the informations without legal proceedings.
The legalese is strong, but I think most of it is understandable (which is surprising).
But: Twitter is now like the 12th social network, who cares?
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#13I’m curious if X will manage to build up the moderation tools and automation without rehiring as many moderators as they used to have. Looking at the requirements, some of those challenging - preventing fast dissemination of illegal content.
Having tried the "Added context" contributions, I think Twitter solved the moderation. It simply works. There's an abundance of free labor and it scales linearly with controversy/spread.
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#14I’m curious if X will manage to build up the moderation tools and automation without rehiring as many moderators as they used to have. Looking at the requirements, some of those challenging - preventing fast dissemination of illegal content.
If the recent leak about the moderation policies for Twitter is correct, they don't actually want to remove that kind of content. So it might not be a matter of not having enough moderators right now but also an intentional policy decision to not sanction posts like this. I can't find an English source here and the original is paywalled, but from a German article ( https://www.heise.de/news/Leak-Leugnung-des-Holocaus…
[flagged]
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#15Not flagging because it is more interesting than usual for a link about Twitter: it's the first time the law is used, and it also _strongly_ hint that they tried first to get access to the informations without legal proceedings. The legalese is strong, but I think most of it is understandable (which is surprising). But: Twitter is now like the 12th social network, who cares?
[flagged]
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#16Not flagging because it is more interesting than usual for a link about Twitter: it's the first time the law is used, and it also _strongly_ hint that they tried first to get access to the informations without legal proceedings. The legalese is strong, but I think most of it is understandable (which is surprising). But: Twitter is now like the 12th social network, who cares?
[flagged]
Nothing EU specific. Most (all?) European countries have a very different view on freedom of speech than the US.
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#17I’m curious if X will manage to build up the moderation tools and automation without rehiring as many moderators as they used to have. Looking at the requirements, some of those challenging - preventing fast dissemination of illegal content.
If the recent leak about the moderation policies for Twitter is correct, they don't actually want to remove that kind of content. So it might not be a matter of not having enough moderators right now but also an intentional policy decision to not sanction posts like this. I can't find an English source here and the original is paywalled, but from a German article ( https://www.heise.de/news/Leak-Leugnung-des-Holocaus…
Bloody hell, that was an _example of a Tweet that they were okay with, in training material_?!
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#18The EU government doesn't give a crap about unfair social media algorithms when they benefit their authoritarian agendas (at the expense of citizens) but as soon as soon as the algorithms go against their own agenda, they immediately launch a commission! And, ironically, the algorithms today are less constrained than they've ever been.
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#19The EU government doesn't give a crap about unfair social media algorithms when they benefit their authoritarian agendas (at the expense of citizens) but as soon as soon as the algorithms go against their own agenda, they immediately launch a commission! And, ironically, the algorithms today are less constrained than they've ever been.
What authoritarian agenda? What commission?
Re: Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act
#20Interesting that Community Notes is mentioned, because it's by far the most reliable anti-"disinformation" mechanism I've seen.
The "bluecheck" system has been absolutely wrecked, though. Even with the haphazard patching of grey and gold ticks, a bluecheck more often than not is the sign of self-promoted nonsense.