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?
"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.
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.
> 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.
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?
> Something self-hosted, using ActivityPub, for example?
There is one: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local
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
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 [...]'.
"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.
I think it's only fair to deadname X.
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&
It seems petty, vindictive and childish.
The EU fine? I agree.
https://archive.ph/icfS3
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.
They should have left X a long time ago. Now is not too late.
Related:
X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163721
> 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.
> 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...
So childish.