W is a for-profit Swedish social platform that European institutions adopted but has moved from open-source to closed-source — a real concern documented by researchers and EU policy analysts. The post's core criticism is verified: W markets itself as European sovereignty but operates as a private venture with privacy risks and now requires ID verification with biometric scanning. The post omits important context: W's creation is genuinely addressing real frustrations with U.S.-based platforms dominating European public institutions, but the comparison to government surveillance fears (from Bill C-34 in Canada about age verification) conflates W's private ID checks with state surveillance, which are different risks. The '40 million ATP users' figure appears unverifiable and unclear in origin.