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Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online
(www.pewresearch.org)
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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aren't those tech companies the one who kept boosting false information on the first place to get ad revenue? FB did it, YouTube did it, Twitter did it, Google did it.
How about breaking them up into smaller companies first?
I thought the labels on potential COVID or election disinformation were pretty good, until companies stopped doing so.
Why not do that again? Those who are gonna claim that it's censorship, will always do so. But, what's needed to be done is to prevent those who are not well informed to fall into antivax / far-right rabbit hole.
Also, force content creators / websites to prominently show who are funding / paying them.
Not really, or at least not intentionally. They push content for engagement, and that's engaging content. It works the same for vote based systems like Reddit and Lemmy too, people upvote ragebait and misinformation all the time. We like to blame "the algorithm" because as a mysterious evil black box, but it's really just human nature.
I don't see how breaking them up would stop misinformation, because no tech company (or government frankly) actually wants to be the one to decide what's misinformation. Facebook and Google have actually lobbied for local governments to start regulating social media content, but nobody will touch it, because as soon as you start regulating content you'll have everyone screaming about "muh free speech" immediately.