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Honestly, while I don't mind legal proceedings against Elon, the best thing the EU or any European government could do would be to start using alternatives to Twitter.
If they'd spin up their own mastodon instance and politicians, institutions and parties would start exclusively posting their statements there, then journalists would have to follow them and news organisations would also start linking those instead.
Twitter isn't as big here anyways, but doing that could imo make it even less so.
European commission Mastodon:
This would be a reason for me to start using Mastodon. I currently don't, and never used Twitter, because the value i got wasn't worth the pain. Mastodon looks like it would be less pain, but there isn't any real value drawing me in. If my country or province spun up instances with verified accounts and media releases, I'd be very interested. If they made their own crappy app, thanks, I'll pass.
Can I ask them how they negotiated with Pfizer to buy those vaccines?
If they’d spin up their own mastodon instance
It's slowly becoming a thing yes.
Yeah the police in Norway used to post all their ops messages on twitter. But now has a self developed platform they use.
It's probably going to go that way for a lot of stuff.