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Jess Weatherbed

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    Another porn site must bow to the EU’s online safety rulebook.

    The European Commission has designated XNXX as a “very large online platform” under the Digital Services Act (DSA), potentially requiring the website to bolster its content moderation and age verification processes.

    The designation follows that of other adult content platforms — Pornhub, Xvideos, and Stripchat — last year. XNXX has until “mid-November 2024” to comply by submitting a risk assessment report.

    XNXX designated as Very Large Online Platform under the Digital Services Act

    [European Commission - European Commission]

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    Jess Weatherbed
    X is stuck at 250 million daily users.

    As reported by The Financial Times:

    In previously unreleased figures, X said its number of global daily active users in the second quarter of this year was 251mn, a rise of 1.6 per cent from the same period the year before.

    The stalled growth and general turmoil at X, ever since Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, created an opening for Zuckerberg’s Threads to attract 175 million monthly users in its first year.

    A graph showing yearly user growth at X, formerly Twitter, stalling since 2022
    Yearly user growth isn’t what it used to be at X.
    Image: The Financial Times
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