The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which is the regulator for vaccines and medicine in the European Union (EU), has stopped using the social media platform X. The website is owned by Elon Musk, who is an important ally of the newly elected United States president Donald Trump. The EMA, whose headquarters are based in Amsterdam, is currently the only EU organization to leave the platform.
The European Commission is investigating X in connection with possible breaches of European social media rules. The executive board of the European Union is demanding information about the algorithms that bring messages on X to the attention of users.
In addition, Brussels is demanding information about the enforcement of internal rules. Social media companies are obligated to protect users against fake news, terrorist content, and online hate within the European Union.
The EMA said that X “no longer suits our communicative needs,” without elaborating on this. The agency will publish on the alternative website Bluesky from now on. The X account will not be deleted.
The agency is keeping the account to prevent people from impersonating the EMA. And also wants to have the possibility “to continue to follow conversations about public and animal health.”
Musk has been head of the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” since this week, even though this is not yet an official government department. Musk bought X, formerly called Twitter, in 2022.
Many users have left the social media platform due to their displeasure with how it is being run. At least 17 social organizations made the decision to leave the platform last week. These included Oxfam Novib, COC, Urgenda, Bits of Freedom, and Terre des Hommes.
British, German, and Austrian universities have also stopped using their accounts, as have the University of Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam.
InSummaryOfWhatIAm on January 25th, 2025 at 06:38 UTC »
Good. Fuck Elon Musk and everything he stands for.
It's unbelievable to me how huge his fall from relative grace in the public eye has been. They did a poll in Sweden recently, 69% has negative views on him, 21% said they were unsure/didn't care, the rest had a positive view on him. Says a lot, even though the number of negative should be even higher.
What I can't understand is how you could want to just tarnish your legacy like he has. Sure, he has a sickening amount of money and will probably have more now that he can be a robber baron for Trump... But history will not look at him kindly, not even if he changed course completely at this point. Fucking nazi-ass, sexual-harassing, ketamine-abusing, transphobia-spewing, absent-fathering, Putin-loving, Cybertruck-creating (probably the most embarrassing of these things), blood-money-inheriting, test-tube child-breeding, Twitter-bankrupting, fascist-loving dickbag who should just fucking hop onto on of his rockets and take it all the way to Mars and build a colony of one with no means of communication with earth.
ocean_swims on January 25th, 2025 at 05:42 UTC »
Now the rest of them need to do it. All the corporations, agencies, iconic brands, celebs, people who are normal. Leave the toxic echo chamber, let them simmer in their anger together. The rest of humanity can communicate perfectly fine via a totally different platform. If the big names all do it, the rest will follow.
farkinAustralia on January 25th, 2025 at 03:57 UTC »
so its good bye to small porn x and hello blueskys hmm