Elon Sued by EU Again, Something to Do with Blue Check Marks (I Don’t Understand This)

Elon Musk does four things:

  • Smokes pot
  • Impregnates middle-aged women
  • Plays Diablo 4 for 14 hours per day
  • Loses lawsuits

That’s all he does. That’s his whole life.

Maybe once in a while someone from Tesla calls him and he’s like “try to make this car not explode” and then hours later they call him back and they’re like “yeah, it exploded” and he’s like “alright.”

Reuters:

Elon Musk’s social media company X breached EU online content rules and its blue checkmark deceives users, EU tech regulators ruled on Friday in a finding that could lead to a hefty fine and significant changes in how it operates.

The charges by the European Commission, the first issued under the Digital Services Act (DSA), follow a seven-month long investigation. The new rules require very large online platforms and search engines to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security.

The EU executive’s preliminary findings or charges sent to X targeted the company’s so-called dark patterns that shape user behaviour, its advertising transparency and data access for researchers.

It said X’s verified accounts which carry a blue checkmark do not correspond to industry practice and negatively affect users’ ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts they interact with.

After buying the platform then known as Twitter in 2022, Musk altered the use of the blue checkmark, which previously indicated that an account belonged to a public figure whose identity was verified but was changed to indicate it belonged to a paid subscriber.

That’s five paragraphs. I literally do not understand even a single sentence there.

This is just weird.

Shouldn’t I be able to understand the meaning of this? I’m not stupid. This looks to be literal nonsense.