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X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns (www.forbes.com)
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X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns::The EU also called upon Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta to do more to tackle disinformation—much of it coming from Russia—ahead of upcoming elections on the continent.

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[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their troll farms were in Lithuania and Ukraine, and I'm not sure where they are now.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they can't contact their troll farms, they won't be able to give new orders.

[–] Huschke@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could always send carrier pigeons with new orders.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IPoAC was created for such an eventuality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

[–] Huschke@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

55% packet loss. Could be worse though.