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 companies rejected. In April 2018 the European Union issued a series of proposals that would crack down on “online misinformation and fake news.” In June 2018 President Emmanuel Macron of France proposed a law which would give French authorities the power to immediately halt “the publication of information deemed to be false ahead of elections.”
No, but social media companies should be treated like service providers and held liable for censoring users for their political views.
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.
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.
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.
yes but to an extent. not far enough to violate free speech, but enough to prevent the spread of disinformation and misinformation that have been used to sway voters and manipulate elections in the past.
Who would define misinformation?
No, but somethings gotta give on this one because it really has gotten out of hand.
No, however social media sites should monitor for false information
posts should be accompanied by a fact check
Yes, and nationalize them
An independent group should monitor
No, the government shouldn’t regulate it it, it should be independently regulated.
They should just not be allowed to host political ads.
Not enough information to answer
No, the government should not regulate social media. However, an independent company should do the regulating.
Yes, as long as the news and information that the government decides to broadcast must not be biased in any way.
It has to be both ways- government shouldn't regulate social media and social media shouldn't regulate opinions of government leaders.
Not over fake news, but if dangerous and used for trafficking or other illegal activity.
No, because the government is at fault too for producing misleading news, but a non-partisan party needs to regulate what is posted or at least provide a fact check for everything that is posted because the unreliability of news is getting out of hand.
No one should regulated public sites!!
Yes, as a compromise, but nationalization is preferred
No, but there need to be stricter policies about spreading misinformation that only impact the individuals spreading it - not the whole website.
Yes, but only labeling fake news as fake or misleading news
They should not be regulated by the government, but they should be monitored for fake news and misinformation to be removed.
No, but social media companies should be required to work with fact checkers
Make Social Media a Publisher instead of a Platform to hold them liable for “fact-checking” information incorrectly and being inherently biased.
No, social media companies are private and should not be regulated by the government. However they should better regulate themselves and reduce false information.
Yes as long as Donald Trump isn’t in control of it.
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No, but allow for media to be sued if they spread misinformation
No, but they can make their own sites or post on existing ones just like anybody else
Companies should be legally liable for action taken on false information, but no direct government regulation.
No, but have a third-party organization filter the fake-news.
This is a very tricky subject. Unfortunately, the combination of our First Amendment Rights together with our capitalistic society, allows for the propagation of too much false or misleading data on social media that can cause a person harm or be determental to our society as a whole. Government regulation, similar to what is being done in Europe, may be the only way to control it.
Complicated, but something needs done about all the lies, etc
Yes, there’s too much fake news and misinformation on social media. Plus, these companies are politically biased and need to be regulated.
Yes,but only those that are pushing the Judaic communistic interest.
No, but the media sites should be required to fact check and remove fake news
Only from foriegn bots & terrorists
Government should not censor the internet. And neither should Speculators.
No, misinformation should be regulated though
Yes, but in a system that prevents abuse.
I don't think that this is the government's place to do this, but I do agree that it should be regulated somehow because there is a lot of fake news on the internet.
Fake news on social media should be regulated, but not by the government.
No, instead implement a fake news warning label
Yes ban political and racially biased news and radio and talk shows and replace with a government program news that's on 3 times a day and radio and talk shows that are on once a week
Yes, but only for news outlets and not individuals
Yes and ban news and political talk radio pdcasts and shows and replace it with a government subsidized news podcast and radio program that's on only 3 times a day no talk programs
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.
No, but as long as they censor content they should be held to the same standard as other media outlets.
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