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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

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hahahahahaah in your dreams. Politicians can be bought.

With depression, from United Kingdom, EU wannabe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

start with yourself, delete your aforementioned accounts.

never had and of this bullshit, never needed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your shot missed the target. I never had an account on any of those shitholes, either.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idk what you're talking about

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

This is day 4 of this article being posted.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 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/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I am interested how is misinformation defined here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait. Wasn't Glenn battered to death?