{"id":10167,"date":"2024-07-12T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:32:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:32:36","slug":"xs-blue-tick-accounts-deceive-users-eu-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/xs-blue-tick-accounts-deceive-users-eu-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"X\u2019s blue tick accounts deceive users-EU Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By J L. Andrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The European Union Commission has raised concerns about Elon Musk&#8217;s social media platform X, fomerly twitter, alleging that it violates online content regulations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue revolves around the &#8220;verified&#8221; blue tick accounts, which they say could mislead users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU&#8217;s tech regulator warned that individuals might mistakenly believe that accounts with blue ticks are verified, even though anyone can purchase one. Furthermore, the regulator allegedly discovered instances of &#8220;malicious actors&#8221; exploiting the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, there were transparency issues related to advertising, and X failed to supply data for research purposes as mandated by EU regulations, as contained in a post through the EU Commission\u2019s X account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings follow a seven month investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) which requires big tech firms, like X, to take action to stop illegal content and safeguard the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSRvZZFWoAAPufx-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSRvZZFWoAAPufx-1.png 680w, https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSRvZZFWoAAPufx-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSRvZZFWoAAPufx-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSRvZZFWoAAPufx-1-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GSRvZZFWoAAPufx-1-350x350.png 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J L. Andrew The European Union Commission has raised concerns about Elon Musk&#8217;s social media platform X, fomerly twitter, alleging that it violates online content regulations. The issue revolves around the &#8220;verified&#8221; blue tick accounts, which they say could mislead users. The EU&#8217;s tech regulator warned that individuals might mistakenly believe that accounts with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,6,1504,5,15],"tags":[274,272],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}