Social media platforms like Meta, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok are facing intense scrutiny after an EU report revealed their failure to constrain a massive Kremlin disinformation campaign surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The study, conducted by civil society groups and published last week by the European Commission, found that “the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards
Nobody minded a couple of years ago when they were promulgating the “right” kind of disinformation.
they would have to try to stop it first. Meanwhile they seem to be focused on ways to increase the spread
We should all trust our Governments to decide what’s truth and what isn’t after bloody decades of lies, cover ups, corruption and blackmail. Our politicians in the pockets of multinational companies and other states or world powers. The persecution and silencing of whistleblowers, widescale censorship and the ever draconian laws gagging news papers from revealing Governments lies are all for our well being. /s
Yeah, we can see that right here on Reddit. The EU will probably do a study hoping to find Russia is the largest source of disinformation, then realize it’s actually India, and quietly drop it for being “racist”. Go to r/worldnews where the horror news out of India is always removed, but any BJP propaganda is upvoted by Indian bots.
Is it possible to forbid any form of advertising on such platforms? Or would that be considered communist?
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Social media platforms like Meta, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok are facing intense scrutiny after an EU report revealed their failure to constrain a massive Kremlin disinformation campaign surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The study, conducted by civil society groups and published last week by the European Commission, found that “the reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts has grown further in the first half of 2023, driven in particular by the dismantling of Twitter’s safety standards
Nobody minded a couple of years ago when they were promulgating the “right” kind of disinformation.
they would have to try to stop it first. Meanwhile they seem to be focused on ways to increase the spread
We should all trust our Governments to decide what’s truth and what isn’t after bloody decades of lies, cover ups, corruption and blackmail. Our politicians in the pockets of multinational companies and other states or world powers. The persecution and silencing of whistleblowers, widescale censorship and the ever draconian laws gagging news papers from revealing Governments lies are all for our well being. /s
Yeah, we can see that right here on Reddit. The EU will probably do a study hoping to find Russia is the largest source of disinformation, then realize it’s actually India, and quietly drop it for being “racist”. Go to r/worldnews where the horror news out of India is always removed, but any BJP propaganda is upvoted by Indian bots.
Is it possible to forbid any form of advertising on such platforms? Or would that be considered communist?