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📣 consumer451

Recently, X has failed at controling disinformation, will EU regs apply?


Here is a thread highlighting X's failures to control blatant disinformation in the last 2 days. [0]

Here is a piece regarding EU disinformation laws. [1]

Here is a direct link to the EU regulations. [2]

Companies over 45M monthly users can face a fine of 6% of yearly revenue, or outright ban in the EU.

Please help me understand: these regulation apply to X, correct?

For anyone familiar with the current state of the EU, is there a real chance of X facing penalties or a ban in the EU?

[0] https://nitter.net/shayan86/status/1711076027013746826

[1] https://www.legaldive.com/news/digital-services-act-dsa-eu-misinformation-law-propaganda-compliance-facebook-gdpr/691657/

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32022R2065&qid=1666857835014

NOTE: nitter.net is substituted for x.com so that everyone can read the entire thread.

  👤 nradov Accepted Answer ✓
A better question is why should anyone care? Distasteful and offensive as it may be, disinformation on X is not an actual problem that needs to be solved. This is just a bunch of parasitic EU bureaucrats looking for ways to justify their jobs and waste more taxpayer money.
👤 rvz
Not exactly. Twitter / X has a mechanism in flagging this with community notes which hints at posts that show such false information even if it spreads or goes viral on the platform.

It would be a problem if there was no such mechanism that exists. So I hardly see how this is a problem given such content gets flagged by hundreds of thousands of Twitter / X users.

👤 jruohonen
"Here is a piece regarding EU disinformation laws."

Note that the DSA is not a "disinformation law".

"For anyone familiar with the current state of the EU, is there a real chance of X facing penalties or a ban in the EU?"

Yes, there is a real chance once the DSA is up and running next year.