The EU says Twitter/X is the worst platform for disinformation

[Bobbydpue]

The site formerly known as Twitter is only as good as its users and blaming the platform for the information pasted by users seems a bit unfair to me. If people believe anything on a site where anyone can post anything that's their fault not the platform's. Unless there is a way for the site formerly known as Twitter to make dumb users smarter there is nothing the platform can do to solve the issue with people posting their opinions rather than posting objective data, which is the same thing the news does anyway.

 

[maxxcool7421]

Except that is 100% accurate when viewed transposed to the equator ...

 

[PEnnn]

When “disinformation” is defined as anything that disagrees with the *current* government-sponsored narrative, it is not surprising the government will claim it is really really bad.

(Unless the narrative shifts to include previous disinformation as accurate, then it is ok without regard for anyone thrown under the bus for saying such things before they were government approved.)

Are you implying that when a certain Orange loser (who has been trounced in the elections and all judges and courts say he lost - he but insists that he won) is "truth" and not disinformation?

And furthermore, when the criminal imbecile keeps inciting violence and keeps on repeating those lies - and this is supposed to be the truth and not dangerous disinformation and he should get away with it??

I think your comprehension of what is disinformation is non-existent.

 

[MartyLK2]

So, what they are actually saying is, X is becoming a platform for the truth and genuine *real* information

 

[RandomWAN]

Helping Ukraine is only a waste of money if you don't know history or for some crazy reasons ignore it. You cannot let a dictator to conquer his neighboring countries breaking all international laws signed by his country.
This is not an inconvenience; this is how previous world wars started. And there is one to start again, only this time with a crazy dictator with nukes. He threatens the world with nukes while trying to occupy entire 45 million country after he failed to tear it from inside from 2014.
The main reason to help Ukraine was never to do it out of good heart or good intentions, there is a crazy old man whose mind was ruined by absolute power. And we made it much worse as nothing was done when he occupied parts of Georgia and then Crimea.
If you let a very bad man do evil, hoping he will eventually have enough, then you are mad. He is not going to stop. His regime kills tortures and is literally commits acts of terrorism. "Let him have those territories, then we'll have peace." As soon as he is done with Ukraine, he will start planning to connect Kenigsberg to the rest of his stinking pseudo empire or something else.

It is a waste of money when you have problems on the home front that need addressing and that help is borrowing from one country to finance another all the while causing more pain and distress to the citizens you're supposed to be protecting because of the massive inflation you are creating with money you're conjuring up out of nowhere.

It's not our problem and anyone voting to send money over there should be removed from office and barred from ever holding office again.

 

[lirva1]

What's the best platform for disinformation then?

 

[koblongata]

In other words, the best platform for free speech

 

[HofyPC]

All one has to do is turn on CNN for all the disinformation.

 

[nulll]

The site formerly known as Twitter is only as good as its users and blaming the platform for the information pasted by users seems a bit unfair to me. If people believe anything on a site where anyone can post anything that's their fault not the platform's. Unless there is a way for the site formerly known as Twitter to make dumb users smarter there is nothing the platform can do to solve the issue with people posting their opinions rather than posting objective data, which is the same thing the news does anyway.

Nailed it, also this provides us all the side benefit of self sorting. Let folks say whatever they want as it immediately identifies them for what they are. Yes there will be disingenuous actors playing narratives structuring and manipulation but that is always going to be a tiny minority of users as it is in reality. That is the entire point of the concept of freedom of speech not freedom of reach. It isn't perfect and there is a lot of work to be done on the refinement of this type of thing as it kind of needs the same protections as something like speakers corner in the UK but at the same time there isn't nearly the same reach to an in person platform as an online one and that also has to be taken into account.

 

[Alfatawi Mendel]

The entire Western Media is owned by 'investors' who number less than the fingers of one hand. They also control the EU. Anything outside of their control is automatically deemed 'misinformation'.

 

[toooooot]

It is a waste of money when you have problems on the home front that need addressing and that help is borrowing from one country to finance another all the while causing more pain and distress to the citizens you're supposed to be protecting because of the massive inflation you are creating with money you're conjuring up out of nowhere.

It's not our problem and anyone voting to send money over there should be removed from office and barred from ever holding office again.

It is not our problem, yes.
It is not now, not yet.
But as a wise person, you should be able to look into the future, by analyzing the past.
I never said that sending money to Ukraine is better than solving our own problems and helping our people who desperate need that help now.
If you followed Russia's history for the last 10-12 years, you could probably see that something is brewing there, something that has a potential for a huge international conflict with millions of refugees and maybe as many lives.
It is responsibility of a strong ones to see these threats and at least make an attempt to prevent them before they happen. Imagine what Nazi Germany could have done if they were not opposed. They would keep doing their evil, killing twice, three times more.
Ukrainians not only dying for their freedom and not being a part of this horrible pseudo empire of Putin. They are also dying for those who will be next if Russia occupies Ukraine.
Again, people say let's make peace. Let's give Putin those territories he wants. But have you listened to him? "USSR fall was orchestrated, countries that left had no right to do it, they should return the territories they received from USSR."
What makes me so frustrated is that he already killed killed and killed more, and yet people hope for peace. He is a psychopath drunk on absolute power. There is no peace, not while he is alive.
Ukraine gets weapons, eliminates enough Russians for them to realize they can live happy without new territories. The end.

 

[VaRmeNsI]

It is not our problem, yes.
It is not now, not yet.
But as a wise person, you should be able to look into the future, by analyzing the past.
I never said that sending money to Ukraine is better than solving our own problems and helping our people who desperate need that help now.
If you followed Russia's history for the last 10-12 years, you could probably see that something is brewing there, something that has a potential for a huge international conflict with millions of refugees and maybe as many lives.
It is responsibility of a strong ones to see these threats and at least make an attempt to prevent them before they happen. Imagine what Nazi Germany could have done if they were not opposed. They would keep doing their evil, killing twice, three times more.
Ukrainians not only dying for their freedom and not being a part of this horrible pseudo empire of Putin. They are also dying for those who will be next if Russia occupies Ukraine.
Again, people say let's make peace. Let's give Putin those territories he wants. But have you listened to him? "USSR fall was orchestrated, countries that left had no right to do it, they should return the territories they received from USSR."
What makes me so frustrated is that he already killed killed and killed more, and yet people hope for peace. He is a psychopath drunk on absolute power. There is no peace, not while he is alive.
Ukraine gets weapons, eliminates enough Russians for them to realize they can live happy without new territories. The end.

To play devil's advocate they were deporting people they didn't like right up until the world war started and it no longer became possible and then started commiting genocide, Hitler said in a speech if pushed into a world war he'd start killing.

A more humane option would be for the West to let Hitler go east until he started on the USSR then lend lease them and perhaps attack Germany later, would keep the genocide to a minimum as the West could continue to accept deportations.

 

[donnieD]

To play devil's advocate they were deporting people they didn't like right up until the world war started and it no longer became possible and then started commiting genocide, Hitler said in a speech if pushed into a world war he'd start killing.

A more humane option would be for the West to let Hitler go east until he started on the USSR then lend lease them and perhaps attack Germany later, would keep the genocide to a minimum as the West could continue to accept deportations.

So, according to you, 28'000'000 Soviets, 6'000'000 Poles and all other Slavic nations that suffered and died in WW2 should have been at least doubled?

 

[Angga B]

"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you FEAR what he might say."
- said one dwarf, centuries ago

 

[Angga B]

Again, people say let's make peace. Let's give Putin those territories he wants. But have you listened to him? "USSR fall was orchestrated, countries that left had no right to do it, they should return the territories they received from USSR."

Provide evidence to this quote or I will report you to the Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency for blatant misinformation.

 

[VaRmeNsI]

So, according to you, 28'000'000 Soviets, 6'000'000 Poles and all other Slavic nations that suffered and died in WW2 should have been at least doubled?

I think the number of deaths could have been heavily reduced if the allies had bought more time to get ready and in the mean time provided a humanitarian corridor.

 

[mailpup]

Back on topic please. Thank you.

 

[kinetix]

The "PR" has done a good effect in you...

 

[Mark Fuller]

In other words, the best platform for free speech

The platform for free speech is the same as the one for disinformation. It's just like a loaded gun, it depends on who is using it like a police officer or a criminal. IMO all social media platforms are just the cyberworld's version of the National Enquirer.

 

[Jon Jonzz]

Buffalo Chips! Musk believes in Free Speech, whereas the other platforms (Instagram, FB, et al) are censors and centers for disinformation and suppressors of free speech.

 

[Mark Fuller]

If Twitter is the exception to the rule, I don't know that. I don't use social media platforms at all. I think the one I'm writing in now is much better.

 

[someOtherGuy]

Are you implying that when a certain Orange loser (who has been trounced in the elections and all judges and courts say he lost - he but insists that he won) is "truth" and not disinformation?

So, if such courts, which are basically just regular people with fancy titles, decide that you're a murderer then you become one, with 0 recourse? Whatever you say in your defense should be classified as miss/disinformation an banned from this world? You might realize (hopefully) why a lot of people have issues with this standard, regardless of the target (Orange man, Alex Jones, V. Putin, etc.)

 

[someOtherGuy]

Helping Ukraine is only a waste of money if you don't know history

Careful with this subject, the Canadian government realized, the hard way, the size of their ignorance a couple days ago.

 

[someOtherGuy]

It is not our problem, yes.
It is not now, not yet.
But as a wise person, you should be able to look into the future, by analyzing the past.
I never said that sending money to Ukraine is better than solving our own problems and helping our people who desperate need that help now.
If you followed Russia's history for the last 10-12 years, you could probably see that something is brewing there, something that has a potential for a huge international conflict with millions of refugees and maybe as many lives.
It is responsibility of a strong ones to see these threats and at least make an attempt to prevent them before they happen. Imagine what Nazi Germany could have done if they were not opposed. They would keep doing their evil, killing twice, three times more.
Ukrainians not only dying for their freedom and not being a part of this horrible pseudo empire of Putin. They are also dying for those who will be next if Russia occupies Ukraine.
Again, people say let's make peace. Let's give Putin those territories he wants. But have you listened to him? "USSR fall was orchestrated, countries that left had no right to do it, they should return the territories they received from USSR."
What makes me so frustrated is that he already killed killed and killed more, and yet people hope for peace. He is a psychopath drunk on absolute power. There is no peace, not while he is alive.
Ukraine gets weapons, eliminates enough Russians for them to realize they can live happy without new territories. The end.

You definitely need to change your history books. Try to find out what the Russians (the Soviets, actually) were doing during WWII and what some Ukrainians that didn't join the Soviet army (The Red Army, if you happen to see that around) did. Here's a hint: there were Ukrainians fighting the Soviets and there's a picture of the "allied" leaders which include Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. I'm giving it away at this point, but you obviously have a lot to review. Another hint: "The Axis" (the bad guys) were Germany, Italy, and Japan (more people joined over time, like some people from a certain "Galicia–Volhynia" region).

BTW, the Soviets have a LOT of dead bodies in their column, because of their pursuit of communism (which called for some "drastic measures"), they're no angels, at all, but lumping them with mustache man is way off: the things that they had in common were that they were leftists (they were called National "Socialists" for a reason) with gross disregard for human life which end up killing a lot of people (a lot of times "each other").