RE: mastodon.social/@_elena/116735…
A warning from Elena on W Social & @EUCommission.
Why would an institute like the European Commission ever want to 'rent' a social media account instead of owning their own server is beyond me.
If you're not the owner you do not control your messaging. We cannot verify the validity & authenticity of your message, which is quite important for political institutions I'd say. It can be done correctly, e.g. the Dutch government's social.overheid.nl server.
#Politics #EU #WSocial #SocialMedia
Dear Fedi friends,Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now.
The @EUCommission and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social.
I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models.
My articles on them:
🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-so…
Wow. Just wow.
W Social - Elena Rossini
Essays by Italian film director and photographer Elena Rossini - about creativity, digital literacy and harnessing the power of the internet for changeElena Rossini
