Aerroon 33 minutes ago
Why can a company be fined for not allowing "researchers" access to data? That seems bizarre to me.
TheAceOfHearts 10 minutes ago
What's bizarre about it? There's lots of legislation that requires companies to report on various data or to provide access to auditors. It's legally valid.

I think there's a compelling case to be made for requiring large social media platforms to provide data access to researchers, considering the platform's incredible ability to influence elections and society at-large.

embedding-shape 8 minutes ago
It's not "any company", it's exceptionally large platforms who can give insight into large societal questions and have enough influence to sway people's opinions. The data is technically public already, researchers could scrape it, but investigations has to be able to be done to ensure the platforms aren't used to intentionally steer people's opinion in a specific direction, since they're unable to self regulate that it seems.
briandw 33 minutes ago
They changed the blue check from an exclusive club of the rich and popular, to just Ive got a paying account. How is that misleading? Why does the EU have a say about design choices?
jamesrr39 12 minutes ago
The blue check symbolised (symbolises) being verified, i.e. this account belongs to who it says it does. But it doesn't carry out any/sufficient checks to actually verify that.

See also: https://x.com/jesus/status/1590405986925543424

Longlius 6 minutes ago
I mean, is there really any reason to continue offering the service in Europe? I highly doubt the revenue is really worth the trouble.
ralph84 55 minutes ago
eurofounder and compliantvc having blue checks was probably the final straw.
ChrisArchitect 30 minutes ago
tw04 2 hours ago
> "Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations," Carr said.

And America is taxing Americans via tariffs to subsidize a corrupt executive branch lining its own pockets. At least Europe is looking out for a whole continent. Not just a handful of grifters.

tock 4 minutes ago
Europe does tax its people a lot more. So the argument doesn't make sense.
mraduldeodhiya 32 minutes ago
Crazy.
Telaneo 54 minutes ago
> "Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU," said European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen.

I agree. Good EU!

> Pre-empting the announcement on Thursday night, United States Vice President JD Vance that "the EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage."

Sorry, but your garbage has influence outside the US. Keep it to yourself or clean up.

Deception and fraud aren't even protected by the 1st Amendment, and the blue checkmark scheme being pay-to-win is definitely leaning that way, if not just straight up there. Seems the EU thought is just is.

And if you care so much about free speech, maybe you should be more open about those ads of yours?

SanjayMehta 12 minutes ago
Europe ran out of colonies, but not the colonial mindset.

Now they're trying to recolonise the world with their regulations.