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Europe and America will increasingly come to diverge into 2 different internets. Meta is abandoning fact-checking in the US, but not the EU, where fact-checking is a legal requirement. (futurology.today)
submitted 11 months ago by Lugh@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today
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Rumbling away throughout 2024 was EU threats to take action against Twitter/X for abandoning fact-checking. The EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) is clear on its requirements - so that conflict will escalate. If X won't change, presumably ultimately it will be banned from the EU.

Meta have decided they'd rather keep EU market access. Today they announced the removal of fact-checking, but only for Americans. Europeans can still benefit from the higher standards the Digital Services Act guarantees.

The next 10 years will see the power of mis/disinformation accelerate with AI. Meta itself seems to be embracing this trend by purposefully integrating fake AI profiles into its networks. From now on it looks like the main battle-ground to deal with this is going to be the EU.

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[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

The NIH is doing similar with scientific groups. Essentially, "stop working with this material because the new politician in charge doesn't like it and this could threaten your funding even though this work was specifically written into the grant." These decisions are not based upon scientific evidence, but politics.

It could also be taken as "stop reporting that you are working with this material..."

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