Here’s a top tip for anyone running a big social network: If an incoming law requires you to properly moderate content on your platform, with enormo-fines being in play if you don't, maybe don’t get rid of thousands of your content moderators.
Elon Musk’s X today became the first subject of formal infringement proceedings under the EU’s new Digital Services Act (DSA), which has applied to big platforms like the former Twitter since August. The trigger? X’s failure to handle disinformation on its platform in the context of the Israel-Hamas war.
