W Social (also called W or wsocial.eu) is a new European social media platform. It's supposed to be a 'clean'/'pure' alternative to platforms like X (Twitter).
Initially talked about...January 2026...at the World Economic Forum in Davos and is supposed to start a launch in the next couple of days here in Europe.
Design? Well...it's supposed to be VERIFIED humans only....NO bots. Every single user must verify their identity with government ID. Biometric data? To be processed via server-side and deleted immediately afterward....leaving only a code, passport country and year of birth.
Who will use it? My belief is a fair number of politicians, journalists, and intellectuals.
Trying to compare to numbers at F-Book or X? No....even at the one-year point....I'll predict they have maybe 10-percent of the numbers.
Selling to the public? Over and over....the term 'verified' will be uttered. Eventually, the EU will demand that F-Book and the rest....must also be verified.
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It'll be funny if that rule applies to x and suddenly everyone notices that their favourite conspiracies are coming out of st petersburg or shenzen, and that 70% of the users are sock puppets or bots.
Before Elon bought X....the company would profess that 5-percent were bots/puppets...with independent folks suggesting it was closer to 15-percent. In the six months after Elon arrived....his folks purged in the range of 330-plus million accounts. I've seen a study (end of 2025) suggesting that 9-to-12 percent are bots/puppets today.
Since January, I've probably noticed a hundred folks who wanted to 'follow' me....who were obviously 'bot-leaders'. I quietly deleted the follow status of each. About 90-percent come out of Asia (my take)...rest? Maybe Ukraine.
If the ID status thing was like a bank account opening...without the ID lingering for gov't approval or gov't control, then I wouldn't mind. But I don't get that feeling.
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