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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think the people still on X are going to be listening to the EU disease agency account.

They should (as you say) go where the people are... Which is threads and BlueSky. Follow the crowd.

[–] troed@fedia.io 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.

The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That's how all public services should do it.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I wonder how long until Xitter does this sort of thing to the EU Disease Information account:

Community Note:

Covid 19 is not real.

I feel like that level of misinformation is now possible there.