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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 · 10w
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEUktOrQV8&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD
The Daniel 🖖 · 10w
More like L, amirite?
Kudzai Kutukwa · 10w
Who on earth in his/her right mind would even want to be on a gvt social media site?! 😂😂
Mr Anderson · 10w
My favourite is the photo verification part 🤣👏
kickerRocks · 10w
A platform only for communists. 🤣🤣🤣
Kayne · 10w
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 · 10w
another waste of taxpayer money
Kyma Fi · 10w
The funniest part is anyone who actually uses that app is an NPC 😆
PhⒶntom · 10w
Sounds terrible 🤣 I´ll have to pass, sorry tyrants...
LaserEyesPsy · 10w
Mais mdr
Achilles · 10w
Nah thank you 💜🫂
nout · 10w
People don't understand why is that a bad thing. Yet.
pison · 10w
why would anyone yse that
bartholomeus · 10w
🤣
EZ · 10w
more like L 😄
MvZ · 10w
Wankers
0x80085 🆕 · 10w
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 · 10w
Epic fail
Jamie · 10w
Hahaha…good luck
nostrich · 10w
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 · 10w
Sounds like bullshit, https://w-social.eu does exist already and it's just a portal page for Fediverse/Mastodon
SelfBankt · 10w
lol
teemupleb · 10w
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 · 10w
See you at blue sky . Where a swear word gets you a mandatory time out
Bitcoin4Money · 10w
Do they really believe that will work?
Sophia · 10w
LOL! That's delusional..
Ape Mithrandir · 10w
Governments launching consumer facing products...
test1 · 10w
The social media for boomers
0xygendebt · 10w
lol mandatory human They are even worse at IDV than the US Will be hilarious
House Thrawn · 10w
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 · 10w
Who will use this stuff even? I don't see this ever making any financial sense.