• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    Well I mean it’s a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don’t switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So… if the job is to warn people about serious shit… it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.

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      2 hours ago

      The whole reason Twitter was popular was to be informed by the people you follow.

      No one that is still there gives any sort of fuck about correct information, just bail. Stop legitimizing this Nazi bullhorn for God’s sake.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t think the people still on X are going to be listening to the EU disease agency account.

      They should (as you say) go where the people are… Which is threads and BlueSky. Follow the crowd.

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        No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.

        The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That’s how all public services should do it.

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          2 hours ago

          I wonder how long until Xitter does this sort of thing to the EU Disease Information account:

          Community Note:

          Covid 19 is not real.

          I feel like that level of misinformation is now possible there.