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When Elon Musk took over X, formerly twitter, he said he was doing so to champion free speech. Now, according to EU watchdogs, the social media platform has now become a haven of disinformation, which pretty much everyone expected. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00 When Elon Musk took over X, formerly Twitter, he said he was doing so to champion free speech.
00:05 Now, according to EU watchdogs, the social media platform has become a haven of disinformation,
00:10 which pretty much everyone expected.
00:12 The new report from the European Commission found that X is "the platform with the largest
00:17 ratio of misinformation or disinformation posts, having proportionally more Russian
00:21 disinformation disseminated on it than any other social media platform."
00:26 This all comes after Elon Musk pulled X out of the voluntary EU disinformation code of
00:30 practice agreement earlier this year, though the EU still has fairly strict laws about
00:34 disinformation and misinformation under their Digital Services Act.
00:39 If companies fail to comply with those laws, they could be liable to pay 6% of their annual
00:43 earnings in penalties.
00:45 European Commission Vice President Vera Zhorova told Bloomberg this new report finds X in
00:49 violation of EU law and that X must comply in combating disinformation on the platform,
00:54 adding about the situation, "This is a multi-million euro weapon of mass manipulation aimed both
01:00 internally at Russians as well as Europeans, and the rest of the world."
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  • @Jesmin Akter4 weeks ago
    I enjoy the transparency of VirturoThere are no hidden obstacles or tricksEverything is straightforward and works exactly as it should
  • @Pandor Maniac7 weeks ago
    Newsflash Eric Morgan people lie sometimes. Maybe use a little common sense and take everything you hear with a grain of salt, much like I do with Democrat politicians and News media.
  • @Pandor Maniac7 weeks ago
    X is misinformation which it's never been a news forum, but when CNN does a information saying they have 2 reporters states away when there both in the same parking lot outside of CNN offices it's factual news?
  • @Pandor Maniac7 weeks ago
    So people can't think and look up facts? Maybe stop being a blind sheep and research things for yourself. A chat forum isn't meant to be a dictionary of facts, if you believe everything you hear or read you need more help than what your looking for online.
  • just ask yourself what Hitler would do with Internet access 🤔
  • @solo-von-kickpaw4 months ago
    lol what a bunch of lies this video is disimformation
  • @Eric Moraign6 months ago
    Sadly it's the way of things in this world now. Conservatives use old fashioned values. Freedom of speech that's all become passe somehow.
  • @grimb7 months ago
    Please, demand better for yourself than to be lied to and manipulated by those who don't deserve your loyalty. You are deserving of more.
  • @dm_6571b5abc14427 months ago
    You're fine with it when Jack Dorsey owns it, & it's a liberal echo chamber, but when somebody else buys it & disturbs that you complain? The misinformation spread when Dorsey owned it, & stopped when musk bought it. You're brainwashed.
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