Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

  • kingthrillgore
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    527 months ago

    Boy I hope the EU does something besides sit around with its dick in their hands.

    • @Syrc
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      367 months ago

      Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue.

      “I remind you that following the opening of a potential investigation and a finding of non-compliance, penalties can be imposed,” Breton wrote.

      The second might be just talk but the first one is very much “something”.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        Since Twitter lost $20 billion in value this year, he would argue that means the EU owes Twitter $1.2 billion.

        Edit: Yes, revenue vs profit. I get it. It was a joke.

        • English Mobster
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          187 months ago

          Revenue, not profit.

          In other words - Twitter would lose even more money. And they’d lose it to people that can take it straight from their bank accounts. 6% of it, to start with.

          So $0.48 of every blue checkmark would go straight to the EU.

          • @Treczoks
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            67 months ago

            And, IIRC the penalty is based on last years or accounting periods data, i.e, from times where they still earned money.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          Since Twitter lost $20 billion in value this year, he would argue that means the EU owes Twitter $1.2 billion.

          Edit: Yes, revenue vs profit. I get it. It was a joke.

          Wouldn’t surprise me if that was Elon’s “strategy” here.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            That’s pretty much the joke I was going for, but I guess I should’ve been more obvious……

    • oce 🐆
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      77 months ago

      What about the country where those megacorps are living?