‘Bye, bye birdie’: EU bids farewell to Twitter as company pulls out of code to fight disinformation
‘Bye, bye birdie’: EU bids farewell to Twitter as company pulls out of code to fight disinformation
Despite Twitter’s withdrawal, the EU’s anti-disinformation code remains “strong,” said Vera Jourova.
Holy shit, it actually happened. Big bird is about to lose an audience of nearly half a billion. The muskrat's ego truly knows no bounds.
Edit: apparently the title is a lie
Please note that the article headline is misleading. Twitter is not leaving or abandoning the EU. It will continue to be available as normal.
What happened is that the EU has a voluntary Disinformation Code that it has asked large companies to sign onto. A number of them agreed to the Code (Google, Microsoft, Twitch, TikTok...). The Code was essentially a series of guidelines and procedures that signatories agreed to self-enforce internally. Twitter was a signatory and has now decided to drop it.
There is no external authority that enforces the Code. There are no direct consequences for failing to enforce the Code. As the article says, there are a series of other, legally-binding, regulations on disinformation and content moderation that Twitter will need to adhere to.
Wow. That headline is downright irresponsible.
Disinformation is another vector for governmyth control of speech that they find inconvenient
Maybe there is some truth to it, but using twitter under musk as an example makes me not believe it and makes you sound like a nutjob.
Assuming you're not making this argument in bad faith (lol), why would private companies be any more trustworthy? They have every motivation to push whatever narrative their owners (read: advertisers) will pay for.