𝕏 began deleting Hamas-related accounts The management of 𝕏 said it has deleted “hundreds of Hamas-related accounts” as well as thousands of posts following the militants’ attack on Israel. Earlier, the European Union gave the social network 24 hours to remove illegal content and mis…

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1. 𝕏 began deleting Hamas-related accounts
   The management of 𝕏 said it has deleted “hundreds of Hamas-related accounts” as well as thousands of posts following the militants’ attack on Israel.
   Earlier, the European Union gave the social network 24 hours to remove illegal content and misinformation related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in order not to face fines under the EU’s recently passed Digital Services Act, writes CNN.
   𝕏 CEO Linda Yaccarino said the company has “redistributed resources and refocused internal teams who are working around the clock to address this rapidly evolving situation.”
   “There is no place on 𝕏 for terrorist organizations or violent extremist groups and we continue to remove such accounts in real time, including proactive efforts,” Yaccarino said.
   Over the weekend, according to CNN, a number of fake videos and other posts appeared on the 𝕏 social network, alarming experts who monitor the spread of misinformation.
   After the attack on Israel, Yaccarino said 𝕏 took action to “remove or label tens of thousands of pieces of content” that violated its rules on offensive speech, media manipulation and graphic media.
   She also said the social network’s administration had responded to more than 80 “removal requests” from EU authorities to remove the content, CNN noted.

2. I don’t think governments should be dictating what’s on social media. That’s a bad precedent.

3. Great idea, censor your enemies. We’ve always been at war with eastasia!

4. I guess you could relate this to whether they will/have delete[d] Russian accounts, but this seems a stretch for related to this sub.

5. He should delete russiabs as well.

6. 𝕏

   Funny. It has its own symbol already.

7. Actually i like living europe because of actions like this. The american approch on free speech where you can say ANYTHING like straight out lies, misinfo, disinfo, rasicim and hate in general is -in my opinion- wrong. There has to be a line. Maybe it is hard to find the exact position of this line but it`s worth looking for.

8. So Elon blinked.

9. Good

10. Why did they tolerate them until now?

11. Those are not militants…

    They are islamic terrorists, and officially so for EU and the USA.