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⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The European Union is reportedly preparing to launch “W,” a new social media platform positioned as a direct rival to X, with mandatory human verification for every account in an effort to eliminate bots and coordinated manipulation.

W, which will require photo verification of users, was publicly announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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G Force G · 4w
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEUktOrQV8&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD
The Daniel 🖖 · 4w
More like L, amirite?
Kudzai Kutukwa · 4w
Who on earth in his/her right mind would even want to be on a gvt social media site?! 😂😂
Mr Anderson · 4w
My favourite is the photo verification part 🤣👏
kickerRocks · 4w
A platform only for communists. 🤣🤣🤣
Kayne · 4w
So they made an alternative to twitter that is just as evil as twitter but in a slightly different way... Hopefully both wTwitter and xTwitter both fail.
marksn · 4w
another waste of taxpayer money
Kyma Fi · 4w
The funniest part is anyone who actually uses that app is an NPC 😆
PhⒶntom · 4w
Sounds terrible 🤣 I´ll have to pass, sorry tyrants...
LaserEyesPsy · 4w
Mais mdr
Achilles · 4w
Nah thank you 💜🫂
nout · 4w
People don't understand why is that a bad thing. Yet.
pison · 4w
why would anyone yse that
bartholomeus · 4w
🤣
EZ · 4w
more like L 😄
MvZ · 4w
Wankers
0x80085 🆕 · 3w
Just a matter of time and incentive before the hUmAn vErIfiCaTioN gets bypassed by bots. On top of that you can't have privacy and that verification bullshit at the same time. This is so ripe for data breaches, imagine what so-called russian hackers could do with a data brrach fill of biometric d...
Carrr · 3w
Epic fail
Jamie · 3w
Hahaha…good luck
nostrich · 3w
To me this smells like desperation. EU has no more than 3 years left. Let's start a centralised fuck social media platform. LMAO
kravietz · 3w
Sounds like bullshit, https://w-social.eu does exist already and it's just a portal page for Fediverse/Mastodon
SelfBankt · 3w
lol
teemupleb · 3w
Let me guess: they say first it will not be mandatory to use for EU citizens, but then you can't work if you don't have an account there
Mr Smith · 3w
See you at blue sky . Where a swear word gets you a mandatory time out
Bitcoin4Money · 3w
Do they really believe that will work?
Sophia · 3w
LOL! That's delusional..
Ape Mithrandir · 3w
Governments launching consumer facing products...
test1 · 3w
The social media for boomers
0xygendebt · 3w
lol mandatory human They are even worse at IDV than the US Will be hilarious
House Thrawn · 3w
Naaaàh, man, I'm good with #nostr. I have my web of trust here, no ID required. Keep your EU surveilance away from me. I value my privacy too much for this ... STUFF. https://blossom.primal.net/590feadb22c67dee6d8b7bc9d9b773ba85f9be84b8420d90586b885f32f663ea.jpg
The BTC economy · 3w
Who will use this stuff even? I don't see this ever making any financial sense.