Europe gives TikTok CEO 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation::Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation, graphic content

  • @carlosfm@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Dear EU, please pull the plug of TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram… the world would be better without these shitholes. We were fine before these existed, and we will survive without them. Greetings from Portugal, EU

  • @badbytes@lemmy.world
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    161 year ago

    I was about to say, the U.S. main news sources are filled with misinformation on this conflict. Please sue us.

    • TheMurphy
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      61 year ago

      There’s a reason Fox News is not operating in EU.

  • Jin
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    81 year ago

    Hope they can get a big fine, because these companies won’t do anything about it, when its a small amount 🤏

    They allowed misinformation and propaganda because the foreign money & connection is too good.

    Examples

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-removes-state-affiliated-media-tags-some-accounts-2023-04-21/

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/china-bots-flood-twitter-with-porn-spam-to-drown-protest-news/

    https://protos.com/twitter-verification-is-making-scammers-millions-heres-how/

  • Jack
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    41 year ago

    I am interested how is misinformation defined here?

        • @echo64@lemmy.world
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          291 year ago

          This is revenue, not profit. It would be an incredibly high fine that most companies would struggle with. It’s incredibly impactful, and no company is brushing off this kind of legislature.

          This grandstanding isn’t useful, this is a good thing and you’re blustering about to make this about your own grandstanding instead.

          • dtc
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            -181 year ago

            Still too low. 56% is fitting. Nationalize that misinformation shithole.

              • TheMurphy
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                1 year ago

                Well, it could good. But only if it’s done right, like government run news channels in Denmark, then it would be amazing!

                It works like this: News channels get money to bring news, but you can make news about everything. And yes, you can criticise the government all you want in these news, and it happens daily.

                Then the news channel can’t take any sponsorships what so ever. There’s no owners, there’s no lobbying. It’s just news like it should be.

            • KptnAutismus
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              21 year ago

              that would probably make it worse, every govenment i have ever seen does horrible with internet stuff.

              • dtc
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                01 year ago

                They suck with everything and I wouldn’t use it either way. I’d rather it be owned by my government than another one who likes to ally with known enemies who would like me to suffer/die.

    • @Fades@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      EU actions have benefited us all in many ways, from GDPR to even things like forcing apple to adopt usb-c. Calling out disinformation isn’t a bad thing, maybe you should gtfo will this doomer talk

      • Polar
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        -121 year ago

        How did GDPR benefit “us all”?

        • TheMurphy
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          61 year ago

          Privacy. Not important for you?

          Meta had to rewrite their whole app, Threads, when it launched for the European market, because it couldn’t track everything you did, as it does in the US.

          So it works really well.

          • Polar
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            -121 year ago

            Ya, European market. Hardly “us all”.

    • gian
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      11 year ago

      A hefty fine ? And an additional fine for every day they are not in compliance ? And maybe banning the app in EU ?

      Let’s say EU has plenty of options to hurt a company.