Post #1428114
2026-02-01 17:54 UTC
@hazelweakly @modulux
The issue with the DSA is that it only requires moderation of things that are actually illegal in member states, too.
I agree with you that this is currently a blindspot. A few mastodon servers I've used have faced this from Russian bots on the network. The moment a pattern linking their posts was discovered, they were all immediately banned.
The same is obviously not true of the "big" online social media platforms :(
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@iftas@mastodon.iftas.org 2026-02-03 09:15
@jmaris @hazelweakly @modulux coordinated inauthentic behaviour requires coordinated responses, and a timely paper on this from @sohw explores the barriers to coordinated governance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19653 For example, we've been monitoring the coordinated pro-Russian accounts being created across a large number of communities. When we notify server admins, we get a range of "these have been deleted" to "why should we trust your findings" to "we have no intention of removing these accounts".