The EU’s own diplomatic service has published a report admitting that X makes its data more accessible to researchers than other major platforms, and then used that admission to brand X the primary channel of “foreign information manipulation and interference” against the bloc.
The European External Action Service (EEAS) put this in writing. The media ran with the conclusion and buried the caveat.
The fourth annual FIMI Threats report, released this month, found that “88% of instances were concentrated on the platform X. The presence of CIB networks, the ease of creation of fabricated accounts, but also more straightforward access to data, explains this concentration.
Most of the major social media platforms restrict access to data that would allow for assessing the magnitude of information manipulation activities.”
Hellbound and Down 