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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 · 28w
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEUktOrQV8&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5tD
Dr. The Daniel 🖖 · 28w
More like L, amirite?
Kudzai Kutukwa · 28w
Who on earth in his/her right mind would even want to be on a gvt social media site?! 😂😂
Mr Anderson · 28w
My favourite is the photo verification part 🤣👏
kickerRocks · 28w
A platform only for communists. 🤣🤣🤣
Kayne · 28w
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 · 28w
another waste of taxpayer money
Kyma Fi · 28w
The funniest part is anyone who actually uses that app is an NPC 😆
AncapCrab · 28w
Sounds terrible 🤣 I´ll have to pass, sorry tyrants...
LaserEyesPsy · 28w
Mais mdr
Achilles · 28w
Nah thank you 💜🫂
nout · 28w
People don't understand why is that a bad thing. Yet.
pison · 28w
why would anyone yse that
bartholomeus · 28w
🤣
EZ · 28w
more like L 😄
MvZ · 28w
Wankers
0x80085 🆕 · 28w
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 · 28w
Epic fail
Jamie · 28w
Hahaha…good luck
nostrich · 28w
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 · 28w
Sounds like bullshit, https://w-social.eu does exist already and it's just a portal page for Fediverse/Mastodon
SelfBankt #BIP-110 · 28w
lol
teemupleb · 28w
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 · 28w
See you at blue sky . Where a swear word gets you a mandatory time out
Bitcoin4Money · 28w
Do they really believe that will work?
Sophia · 28w
LOL! That's delusional..
Ape Mithrandir · 28w
Governments launching consumer facing products...
test1 · 28w
The social media for boomers
0xygendebt · 28w
lol mandatory human They are even worse at IDV than the US Will be hilarious
House Thrawn · 28w
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 · 28w
Who will use this stuff even? I don't see this ever making any financial sense.