Social media companies could soon be subject to sanctions if they don’t do more to tackle fake news and disinformation, an MEP has said.
“It [tackling fake news] absolutely demands more work from social media companies,” MEP Deirdre Clune told“At the moment there is a code of conduct in place and they’re flagging this type of information. But obviously users are spreading this disinformation… so more is going to have to be done.“And they’re going to have to take more action and they will be subject to sanctions if it’s deemed that they’re not doing and not working effectively in the terms of the regulations.
“No company really wants to take on additional responsibilities but if it’s law, it’s law. And they’ll be obliged to do it. So they’re well aware of it and they will need more work on their behalf.”Ms Clune’s remarks come in the wake of Facebook and YouTube confirming that they have taken down a deep fake video that purported to show President Zelenskyy surrendering to Russia.
The video was highly unconvincing and widely mocked by Ukrainians. However, it still caused enough of a stir for the real President to denounce it as a"childish provocation" on social media.
Given that half the news on main stream news is fake that will be good let’s see will that get pulled
Who decides what’s fake and what’s not? Colleague was stuck in India early last year and couldn’t get over the amount of calls and texts he was getting wondering if he was ok, by our media India was stacking bodies on streets, by Indian media and simply walking around ,normal
Right so who decides what fake news is ? Most of what RTE says is bullsh** so
West has even more censorship than Russia
As we saw recently with coviid most derided as fake news became fact Sounds like an EU proposal to quell dissent politically and control the narrative Censorship and propaganda in one!
Good. Now kick Facebook out of the EU.
The irony of this being a Newstalk tweet.😃
Big tech blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story
What will ff fg do thats bad news for all there propaganda
Sounds worryingly like censorship