According to the father of Facebook, the Union limits freedom of speech.
A few days ago, the news arrived that, as a spectacular gesture to Donald Trump, Facebook and Instagram are shutting down their fact-checking algorithms and switching to social fact-checking, which already works on X. Since then, many people have spoken out against Community Notes, which indeed provides a warning to posts with dubious authenticity, but they can still be viewed and shared.
Quite a few experts have expressed their concern from here and beyond the Atlantic Ocean that this could be a hotbed for disinformation campaigns, which could even pose a risk to national security. It could be guessed that the EU, which has been trying to regulate the tech giants for years, will not leave the decision unanswered, but it seems that Mark Zuckerberg went on the attack first.
The head of the Meta is a ReutersIn his statement to
“In Europe, the number of laws that institutionalize censorship is increasing, making it quite complicated to build anything innovative there.”
A European Commission spokesperson’s brief response was: “We reject any allegations of censorship.” Unfortunately, the information war on the Internet started when there were no armed conflicts in our neighborhood, so it is no wonder that it is important for the EU to have some kind of fact-checking on these platforms.
It is likely that with the inauguration of Donald Trump, messages like this will become more and more frequent, since most tech moguls have declared their support for the Republican president, so they can enjoy the protection of the United States against the EU.
Source: www.pcwplus.hu
