Twitter Axes European Commission's Ad Account After €120m EU Fine

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casenmgreen

29 days ago

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It seems petty, vindictive and childish.

DaSHacka

28 days ago

The EU fine? I agree.

pjmlp

29 days ago

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The grown ups have left the room, and it certainly won't make the fine go away.

Here is an idea, just leave EU completely.

grimblee

28 days ago

Yes, excellent idea ! Let's make X less legitimate by removing a bunch of people.

bgbntty2

29 days ago

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It doesn't sit right with me that a government body has an ad account in a centralized for-profit service in the first place.

Even having a free account seems wrong to me. The European Commission could post news, updates on its work and polls on the official European Commission site. I don't think the government should favor corporate social media sites or have anything to do with them in the first place. If they feel like posting on their own site is not enough, why not use a free social media outlet? Something self-hosted, using ActivityPub, for example?

timeon

29 days ago

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> Something self-hosted, using ActivityPub, for example?

There is one: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local

dlahoda

28 days ago

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/1156677153...

Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’

Lack of transparency of its advertising repository

Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

lucideer

26 days ago

This seems like a really odd take. What you're effectively advocating for here is for people not to see information about publicly funded services, because ultimately centralised for-profit services own user attention, & therefore govern what the majority of people see.

> why not use a free social media outlet?

This would be fine if people used free social media outlets. They don't. Short of banning private social media, I don't see what governments can do to change that.

hesgoingpubpub

29 days ago

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Twitter was acquired and now calls itself 'X' (like ex-wife and the favorite generation that works so hard and buys all Cybertrucks) and 'Grok'.

So, the headline should be fixed to accurately read 'X axes [...]'.

estimator7292

29 days ago

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"X" is so ambiguous as to be meaningless. That character is literally the canonical stand-in for "something".

Call it twitter so everyone understands what you're talking about without having a long pretentious conversation where you want to feel superior for defending a Nazi's right to rename a website.

phoronixrlyAuthor

29 days ago

I think it's only fair to deadname X.

x______________

28 days ago

>"X" is so ambiguous as to be meaningless. That character is literally the canonical stand-in for "something".

I totally agree!

hesgoingpubpub

29 days ago

The 'acquirer' of Twitter then spent $300 million - presumably fraudulently embezzled from an excessive bonus at a car company - getting Trump elected, and wastefully f'ed with a bunch of already expensively cost-justified government contracts in government for 130 days.

Here's the car ad: Trump buys a Tesla from Elon Musk at the White House https://youtube.com/watch?v=VGOG_q7Vzxo&

SilverElfin

29 days ago

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> Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

For those that haven’t followed Nikita Bier on Twitter, he’s a childish and immature person. The way he talks about changes at X is completely unprofessional. So this type of deceptive revenge action is completely in character. I guess Elon hired him for that reason.

DaSHacka

28 days ago

> For those that haven’t followed Nikita Bier on Twitter, he’s a childish and immature person.

Thanks for backing up this character assassination on him with some kind of concrete example.

Oh wait...

maelito

29 days ago

They should have left X a long time ago. Now is not too late.

ChrisArchitect

29 days ago

X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163721