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The tech mogul’s platform is the first to get hit with charges under new EU social media law.

The European Union is calling Elon Musk to order over how he turned social media site X into a haven for disinformation and illegal content.

The EU Commission on Friday formally charged X for failing to respect EU social media law. The platform could face a sweeping multi-million euro fine in a pioneering case under the bloc's new Digital Services Act (DSA), a law to clamp down on toxic and illegal online content and algorithms

Musk's X has been in Brussels' crosshairs ever since the billionaire took over the company, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022. X has been accused of letting disinformation and illegal hate speech run wild, roll out misleading authentication features and blocking external researchers from tools to scrutinize how malicious content on the platforms spreads

The European Commission oversees X and two dozens of the world's largest online platforms including Facebook, YouTube and others. The EU executive's probe into Musk's firm opened in December 2023 and was the first formal investigation. Friday's charges are the first-ever under the DSA. 

Infringements of the DSA could lead to fines of up to 6 percent of a X’s global revenue.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

They’ve done research about deplatforming, and it’s actually really effective in reducing content - most of the followers aren’t motivated enough to jump to a different website to follow their conspiracy content.

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I wish you could've lived in the wild days of eating lead and radiation well before the internet was even an idea.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

That kinda sounds like a threat.

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You think im threatening to send you back in time???

[-] Metacortechs@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Let's just say you could.... How much to go back 46 years?

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