Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
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#2"In addition to disinformation surrounding the conflict in Israel, Breton wrote that the EU had received reports of manipulated content and deepfakes on Meta's platforms ahead of the recent election in Slovakia. He said that misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA."
The recent Slovak elections are indeed a good example of things to come.
Re: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
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#4Misinformation. No examples of such. Not even for which side.
Hard to disagree with a blanket “avoid misinformation”. But I guess that's the point.
Re: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
#5"In addition to disinformation surrounding the conflict in Israel, Breton wrote that the EU had received reports of manipulated content and deepfakes on Meta's platforms ahead of the recent election in Slovakia. He said that misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA." The recent Slovak elections are indeed a good example of things to come.
>misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA
Speaking as a card carrying DSA member who primaried many folks...
well actually my wallet was stolen but you get the idea...
Speaking as someone who joined the DSA post Trump... people tend to get really pissy if you accuse them of being a Russian robot one too many times :-)
Re: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
#6Misinformation. No examples of such. Not even for which side. Hard to disagree with a blanket “avoid misinformation”. But I guess that's the point.
I can share some, for Twitter/X at any rate. Employees of Rebel Media (far-right Canadian media org with an agenda) have been caught organizing the posting of old footage of IDF incursions in the West Bank and Gaza dubbed over (poorly) with soundtracks of Arab men laughing to make it look like Palestinian militants were caging Israeli children, knocking down doors, and otherwise being inhumane.
This tweet calls them out on it and has screenshots of the posts in question:
https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1711364819863888227
Their Wikipedia page has other misinformation they’ve done in the past, but my edit to include this bout of disinformation was just rolled back, apparently because this behavior was documented and called out by an independent journalist and not published by mainstream media:
Re: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
#7"In addition to disinformation surrounding the conflict in Israel, Breton wrote that the EU had received reports of manipulated content and deepfakes on Meta's platforms ahead of the recent election in Slovakia. He said that misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA." The recent Slovak elections are indeed a good example of things to come.
>misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA Speaking as a card carrying DSA member who primaried many folks... well actually my wallet was stolen but you get the idea... Speaking as someone who joined the DSA post Trump... people tend to get really pissy if you accuse them of being a Russian robot one too many times :-)
The DSA you speak of is not the DSA (Digital Services Act) the article refers to. (I didn’t downvote, fwiw.)
Re: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
#8Mindlessness.
There is a reason spectrum is regulated. Broadcast being free for all, has Never made any sense. Social media is an abnormality.
Re: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict
#9Very few countries have freedom of speech enshrined quite as forcefully as it is in the United States. One really has to wonder where this is going to go? I understand why they want to do it, but once a censorship regime is established it will be very difficult to dislodge. What happens when the next set of elections puts in somebody who uses that power for less than ideal purposes?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
>misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA Speaking as a card carrying DSA member who primaried many folks... well actually my wallet was stolen but you get the idea... Speaking as someone who joined the DSA post Trump... people tend to get really pissy if you accuse them of being a Russian robot one too many times :-)
The DSA you speak of is not the DSA (Digital Services Act) the article refers to. (I didn’t downvote, fwiw.)
You can vote however you want, it was a small joke.
I was drawing attention to the fact that "disinformation" is at it's core, someone who has no right to vote in an election trying to influence those who do, and how we often paint lawful, protected speech as disinformation, either by direct retorts "Russian bot!" or... downvoting.
Vote however you want friends, I play by "Whose Line" rules -- it's all made up and the points don't matter... hence accounting for the multi year GAP in my posts.