EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo
EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo
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... considers? Just do it. Jesus.
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Wowowow.. it's an EU agency... First they need to issue a communication that sets outs a vision for a roadmap to create a framework for an alliance that will create an agenda for the steering committee that will issue a request for a study of merits.
Then they can schedule to do something.
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The kicker is that in any member state that'd be politics trying to bury something in procedure, while on the European level it's the only way to get anything done. Leave out a step and the thing just fizzles because noone even knows about it.
...not, I mean, quitting X. But in general.
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Firewall block Xitter, then flatten san fran with 30 nukes just to be sure
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They have a concept of quitting.
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Considers? This is not news worthy. This is like showing up to a skin head rally and announcing you are considering friending a black person. Grow a spine and do the right thing.
If your business uses X send a letter to the head of marketing and your ceo asking them to stop or start a petition.
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And the swastika means many things besides supporting Nazis, but shitheads have a way of ruining things. Your progressive skin head friends have an uphill battle and at some point you need to weigh your dedication to an esthetic vs the societally accepted message of hate you outwardly project. There are probably a couple decent human beings on X for example, but I'm going to assume they are douche bags. I'm all for swimming up stream but when your vibe overlaps with hate signaling it's time to search yourself for some flexibility on your choices/look / etc.
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They have bluesky account as well https://bsky.app/profile/ecdc-eu.bsky.social, threads https://www.threads.net/@ecdc.eu and mastodon https://mastodon.social/@ECDC_EU@respublicae.eu But, the mastodon and threads seems abandoned.
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The threads one looks like has posts from 2 days ago so I think it is used.
The Mastodon one says it is an unofficial automated mirror.
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Oops. Yeah I just noticed that. Well, Mastodon users can use bridgy to this bluesky account to get latest feeds
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Why not just post to multiple? Its only microblogging. There is even marketing dashboards that let you post to every platform in one place.
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"considers". the human race is very very stupid, and in the end, will be it's own undoing.
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It’s not like the crazies from over there will believe anything that agency says anyway, so better just gtfo.
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WoW, so brave of the EU.
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Like RFK Jr won't reinstate it and make it "the official communication channel"?
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Good news everyone, the US has control over EU agencies now!
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My bad, the flag mislead me.. Also been poisoned by US politics obviously.
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Why is anyone considering staying on X?
Well I mean it's a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don't switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So... if the job is to warn people about serious shit... it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.
I don't think the people still on X are going to be listening to the EU disease agency account.
They should (as you say) go where the people are... Which is threads and BlueSky. Follow the crowd.
The whole reason Twitter was popular was to be informed by the people you follow.
No one that is still there gives any sort of fuck about correct information, just bail. Stop legitimizing this Nazi bullhorn for God's sake.
What's the point then when the important information can't be freely read by the population without a xitter account. It made sense when you could read tweets without forced login, but now is useless
Shut down the Xitter infection
I hadn’t used my twitter account in over a year, but today finally deleted all my posts and disabled the account.
I had it for 16 years and thought it’d feel different, but I’ve been so far away from it now I really had no emotions to shutting it down. It was easy, and now I have no ties to that garbage any more.
It's hard to feel any emotions while severing such impersonal relationships. I would advise you to do it whenever you feel like it's the correct thing to do. Go where the users shine, the memes flow and the owners aren't dipshit billionaires who mine your data, restrict the free internet and pollute your online experiences with conspiratorial nazi bullshit. Be a digital nomad.
At this point Musk might greet all your health-related updates with a 1000x boost of anti-vax nonsense from RFK Jr and an army of anti-vax bots spewing Nazi rhetoric, then you getting sued and your account banned if you suggest something "fishy" is happening
Fuck this absolute steaming pile of a website and the nutjob that smeared his shit all over it. No government agency should even think of using it for anything regarding public communications
I don't know about others but I'm there for the porn
Objectively the most rational reason to be there. It's named X, after all.
Why did anyone join it in the first place?
It USED to be a decent source for news and updates on stuff but that's long gone. I deleted my account just before that weird billionaire guy bought it and don't regret it one bit.