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The European Union is pulling its advertisements from Elon Musk’s X for now, citing an “alarming increase” in hate speech and disinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year::The European Union is pulling its advertisements from Elon Musk’s X for now, citing an “alarming increase” in hate speech and disinformation on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

  • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    Most of Middle East and North Africa from 7th century on. Most of the area of current Spain and Portugal was under Islam rule for 5 centuries.

    Currently? Sweden’s Malmö is probably the closest example of a slowly happening “takeover”.

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

    Is this a problem? That I don’t claim to definitely know, but it doesn’t feel like a great direction for a secular atheist such as myself.

      • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        34·
        1 year ago

        Yes, it’s possible that it’s a similar hyperbole and nothing to worry about ultimately.

        The reasons why jews were hated/distrusted in history seem to be different from the reasons why muslims are.