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Social media giants to face multimillion-dollar fines for spreading fake news (12ft.io)

submitted 2 years ago by Los@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] demvoter@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

While this sounds good, it is just a proposed law. It must be enacted and then it must be enforced.. EU has laws yet all the social media companies have done very little about the trash on their sites. Twitter is promoting mis- and disinformation to all its users. YT said it would stop removing false election fraud videos. We’ll see if this goes anywhere.