EU gives ultimatum to Musk to deal with Israel-Hamas misinformation
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The EU's digital rights chief warned the owner of X, formerly Twitter, that war misinformation flooding the site was a potential breach of EU law.

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  • tallwookie@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    so if the twitter servers were moved out of the EU and the employees there were terminated... that'd be cheaper than 6% fine

    • tristan@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      As long as he's still offering it in Europe, they can fine him. If he doesn't pay, they can just order that all the ISPs block it killing that entire chunk of users

      Given the low value of Twitter currently, that's probably still cheaper since the 6% is based off the previous year's revenue