00:00Is the EU launching a social network to replace X?
00:05Claims are spreading online like wild.
00:10The European Union is setting up its own social media platform to rival X?
00:15These posts have spread primarily on X itself, some with thousands of views.
00:20And say that taxpayers' money will be used to set up W as an alternative to...
00:25Elon Musk's platform.
00:26Some posts describe it as a state-run censorship platform that...
00:30has received funding from the European executive, but these claims are misleading.
00:35The European Commission spokesperson told the Cube that the EU is not launching, funding
00:39or...
00:40and operating any social media platform.
00:42There is no EU-backed project called W.
00:45So, what then is W?
00:47According to its CEO, Anna Zaita is a privately owned...
00:50social media startup incorporated in Sweden, funded by private investors...
00:55mainly from the Nordics.
00:56W will be hosted on European servers, limit ownership to Europe...
01:00and operate under the DSA.
01:03False claims about EU involvement
01:05spread after a group of 54 MEPs urged European Commission President Er...
01:10to build European social media and back alternatives to the main platform.
01:15This was in the wake of multiple scandals involving Elon Musk's ex...
01:20including pornographic material and the amplification of false conspiracies.
01:24The letter...
01:25which is in no way binding, has no connection to W...
01:28which is not an EU initiative.
01:30A recent European Parliament resolution calls for more technological sovereignty in areas...
01:35like cloud computing and AI...
01:37but it doesn't propose creating a new EU social media...
01:40platform.
01:41W plans are gradually rolling out this year...
01:44using passport...
01:45and selfie verification to check the identities of its users.
01:50on the right-hand the TEMPS is right...
01:55and to reach for the internet...
01:56yourselves.
01:57And now, when we turn to the right,
01:58we're going to be in contact and see if you own any...
02:00on our website that can work on an EU.
02:01Under the right, you're there...
02:03if you're just holding out the right...
02:04the Attorney General at the UNO,
02:05the Right-Soup,
02:06we're going to find a place to be on that...
02:07and to the right,
02:08you have to find a place where the next country is...
02:10to be on Thursday,
02:11to be at the right.
02:12You're the right,
02:13the right,
02:13the right,
02:15that's it.
02:16The right thing we're around...
02:17in the right to be on the left,
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