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@luca
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Viral posts claiming the EU is launching its own social media platform to counter X, in the wake of various scandals, are misleading.
Claims are spreading online that the European Union is building its own social media platform to replace X, with posts alleging that a new network called "W" will be funded by taxpayers and run as a censorship tool. -
@luca
#PostOfTheWeek (season 3):
Viral posts claiming the EU is launching its own social media platform to counter X, in the wake of various scandals, are misleading.
Claims are spreading online that the European Union is building its own social media platform to replace X, with posts alleging that a new network called "W" will be funded by taxpayers and run as a censorship tool.@luca
Posts, shared widely on X, claim the project is backed by Brussels, financed by taxpayers' money and designed to impose EU oversight on online speech.One post, viewed more than 60,000 times, claims that "500 million of our tax money will be spent on a censorship system in which everything is checked, corrected and eliminated".
Another, with more than 570,000 views, claims that the European Union "is releasing W".
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@luca
Posts, shared widely on X, claim the project is backed by Brussels, financed by taxpayers' money and designed to impose EU oversight on online speech.One post, viewed more than 60,000 times, claims that "500 million of our tax money will be spent on a censorship system in which everything is checked, corrected and eliminated".
Another, with more than 570,000 views, claims that the European Union "is releasing W".
@luca
But a spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W". -
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@luca
But a spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W".I know, and as I said, official communications coming from W were frankly ambiguous in this.
They let the disinformation spread and adjusted their web site a bit too late. -
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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@_elena @euronews
Yeah, it looked weird that there was no trace of news on financing except on two or three sites. I wonder who extracted value from building this tale, besides free advertising for the yet-to-be platform.
Anyways what was told about their paradigm still holds its value, and we all are now "en garde". -
@fosdembsd Why would you say that is strange? This is exactly what should happen, organisations that want control over their communications have their own instance, but are not in control of the network.
@ahltorp @fosdembsd it is a bit strange because of the quote "the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform". Partly because the EU runs a mastodon instance (hence "not launching" is weird), and they fund(ed) I think Mastodon, goto social and possibly others through Next Generation Internet (sub)grants.
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@ahltorp @fosdembsd it is a bit strange because of the quote "the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform". Partly because the EU runs a mastodon instance (hence "not launching" is weird), and they fund(ed) I think Mastodon, goto social and possibly others through Next Generation Internet (sub)grants.
An 'instance' isn't the same as a 'platform'.
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An 'instance' isn't the same as a 'platform'.
@gsymon how do they differ?
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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@gsymon how do they differ?
The instances are all the individual / independent servers that run Mastodon, which is the platform.
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@_elena @sharan Personally happy to draw ire from Fedi enthusiasts when it comes to government-run Social Media. Remember: social media needs to be moderated, and really the last thing that citizens should want is their government moderating speech, literally. You can (hopefully) trust your gov't now (sans USA), but what about in 10 years?
More than happy with the choice of people to choose which Fediverse instance they want to join, as long as in the end it's the Fediverse.
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Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called #WSocial?
"A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, that the EU is not launching or funding any social media platform, and that there is currently no EU-backed project called "W"
[...] W is a privately owned social media start-up incorporated in Sweden, backed by private investors mainly from the Nordic region."
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Sorry for the plaguedIn link, but that’s where it was posted
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7419299008998776832/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ikuturso/116074579203879354
@_elena @luca There are some new details out on who is behind W Social, what they're doing etc. They have a fairly well connected advisory board of politicians and tech industry big wigs it seems (see quoted thread).
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