In January 2018 Germany passed the NetzDG law which required platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down perceived illegal content within 24 hours or seven days, depending on the charge, or risk a fine of €50 million ($60 million) fines. In July 2018 representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter denied to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary committee that they censor content for political reasons. During the hearing Republican members of Congress criticized the social media companies for politically motivated practices in removing some content, a charge the…
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74% No |
21% Yes |
58% No |
3% Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media |
9% No, the government should not determine what is fake or real news |
2% Yes, social media companies are politically biased and need to be regulated |
6% No, social media companies are private and should not be regulated by the government |
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@8D7X8VB4yrs4Y
No, but government should require all media outlets (paper, online, radio, tv, etc) to provide both points of view when discussing any political issue. we are at this point; because both points of view are hardly every side-by-side.
@8YZCWH42yrs2Y
Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media. But social media sites should NOT be regulated by the government, they should be regulated by the owners. Social media sites should STOP being politically biased.
@6VRCV2L3yrs3Y
The government should ensure that people who intentionally mislead others are flagged and responded to with factual, non-bias evidence from all sides of the actual story.
@6VRZ2N23yrs3Y
Social media companies tend to be profit driven which greatly hinders their ability to run their business without bias. Advert sales are not monitored strictly enough and this results in certain individuals/companies/sovereign states taking advantage of the system in place to push their own political/social agenda with the use of fake statistics and facts to control the mind set of the populous.
@6VRGFFV3yrs3Y
The governments role should ensure that antitrust laws are not broken and that there is not a monopoly regarding information. I think that the site providing their information should be required to include enough personal information so one can determine if it is biased.
@8YFFX262yrs2Y
Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media. Social media sites should NOT be regulated by the government, they should be regulated by the owners. Social media sites should STOP being politically biased.
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Both the Economist and the WSJ state explicitly that the main reason the TikTok ban picked up so much bipartisan steam in DC since Oct. 7 was because of how much Israel criticism was allowed to air and circulate on the platform (see below).WSJ:‘It was slow going until Oct. 7. The attack that day in Israel by Hamas and the ensuing conflict in Gaza became a turning point in the push against TikTok, Helberg said. People who historically hadn’t taken a position on TikTok became concerned with how Israel was portrayed in the videos and what they saw as an increase in antisemitic content posted to the app. Anthony Goldbloom, a San Francisco-based data scientist and tech executive, started analyzing data TikTok published in its dashboard for ad buyers showing the number of times users watched videos with certain hashtags. He found far more views for videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags than those with pro-Israel hashtags. While the ratio fluctuated, he found that at times it ran 69 to 1 in favor of videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags.’
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Steven Mnuchin is putting together a consortium to try to buy TikTok, the Former Treasury Secretary said.“I think the legislation should pass and I think it should be sold,” Mnuchin said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday. “It’s a great business and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok.”Mnuchin’s comments come two days after the House voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would ban the popular app from operating in the U.S. or force its Chinese owner ByteDance to sell.
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The United States House of Representatives is gearing up for a pivotal vote on a bill that could lead to the ban of the popular social media app TikTok, sparking widespread debate and concern among its millions of American users. The legislation, aimed at addressing national security concerns, mandates…
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