Europe gives TikTok CEO 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation : technology

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

You can't solve this. Instead, schools should teach about misinformation and how to do a your own research the right way. Llts of people don't have this skill (or just a skill on how to use Internet).

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Just switch them all off. The future is the Fediverse. Don't feed these greedy corporations that spread hate and are harming the world. Vote with your wallet. Abandon. Boycott. Etc. :-)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Disinformation can and does spread on the fediverse too. The only way to stop it is to teach people how to validate information.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hahahahahaah in your dreams. Politicians can be bought.

With depression, from United Kingdom, EU wannabe

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

9 people think they won’t be fine without social media, now you see it’s a huge problem, lol. Poor souls…

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Let's just ban what we don't like, good idea

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Send it

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

SEND IT

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Idk what you're talking about

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

Gaza has the same amount of time to evacuate a million people as TikTok’s lawyers have to respond to Europe’s email.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

This is day 4 of this article being posted.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[+] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I am interested how is misinformation defined here?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wait. Wasn't Glenn battered to death?

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 years ago

Or what? A fucking slap on the wrist? GTFO with this.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or a fine of 6% of global revenue, which isn't small.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 years ago

And it isn't large enough, either.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years 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.

[+] [email protected] -18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, government run social media. Nothing could go wrong with that.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Tier 2 is removal from market. It is substantial.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

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