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.”
@ISIDEWITH4yrs
@ISIDEWITH4yrs
No, social media companies are private and should not be regulated by the government
@ISIDEWITH4yrs
@ISIDEWITH4yrs
Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media
@6VRCV2L2yrs
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.
@6VRGFFV2yrs
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.
@95WRV2513hrs
Social media companies should be held to the 1st amendment as a public utility
@95WMGQR19hrs
No but they already do
@95WGLPV23hrs
Yes, but not for this reason.
@95WF5BF1 day
Social media should be held accountable for what is consider factual in there sites and opinions not news should be labeled that way
@95VJGJ22 days
The government should be monitored.
@95VFMKH2 days
Social media sites should remove ALL political posts.
@95V9Y5N2 days
No, only corporations that are for news
No, but the companies should be held liable when their algorithms help radicalize terrorists such as school shooters
@95V5BRT2 days
No but the government should be able to step in to protect freedom of speech
@95TNFYC2 days
Yes, but people specialized in certain fields should be the ones deciding what is harmful
@95THN4R3 days
No, but the social media site should do it’s own due diligence in ensuring accurate information
@95TG7LWIndependent3 days
No the govt should not determine what is fake/real and neither should the social media companies. The person reading it should decide for themselves.
@95T9WGS3 days
No, if people could actually think, this wouldn’t be an issue.
@95TB5GM3 days
There is a lot of misinformation and misleading news on social media BUT no government should be able to control what is shown to it’s citizens.
@95T982XProgressive3 days
Yes, but opinions should not be regulated. “Fake news”should be corrected and flagged. It’s a slippery slope and protections for free speech and outright misinformation need to be clearly defined.
@95T8P4B3 days
No but social media companies should do more to prevent the spread of fake news and propaganda. Government should also be able to take action against hubs of this type of misinformation if nothing is done.
@95SX7K93 days
Politics on the news should not be biased in general, they should just say things happening in the political world and not aim for one side.
@95SRFSL3 days
No, it can become a slippery slope where the government is allowed to ban any news they might find unfavorable
@95SLNG63 days
I don’t think that government regulations would solve this problem because it would also use this power to put out information to support its own power and position but something should be done about this issue.
Should be able to regulate punishments to users of knowingly, intentionally, or negligently harmful misinformation and disinformation, which could incite violence. But not for merely being wrong or having an incendiary opinion.
@95SBFH63 days
No, but they already do
@95S8CKZ3 days
More needs to be done about fake news, but I do not trust a government to unilaterally intervene and arbitrate
@95RXSTC3 days
Yes, but said content must only be accompanied by a label that declares a message's content to be factually inaccurate or deceiving, rather than removing it in it's entirety.
@95RVC9MProgressive4 days
Social media companies should be treated as a public forum, but the origins of false information should be prosecuted.
@95RQM2X4 days
No, illegal content is already regulated. Social media should be incentivized to promote truth and fact checking.
@95RQ34P4 days
I am able to see both sides of this issue and thus cannot answer. On the one hand misinformation and fake news are a massive problem, but on the other Social Media are the main form of communication today, and thus regulating them invites censorship and unconstitutional behavior.
@95RMJGZ4 days
No but Set standards and requirements for professional journalists to provide evidence.
@95RL2DY4 days
Yes, so long as regulation does not impinge upon freedom of speech
@95RK78G4 days
No: if the government were allowed to regulate misinformation, it would be allowed to regulate accurate information.
@95R9KGPIndependent4 days
Regardless, the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated.
@95RFSY64 days
No, but there should be severe penalties for peddling lies and misinformation. Fines proportional to income and/or worth.
@95RFMQC4 days
I don’t trust the government to be able to fairly define what is or is not harmful
@95RF93B4 days
Only to the extent of required disclaimer that information presented is not new
No, the government shouldn't interfere directly and lacks public trust, but a return of the Fairness in Media act should be proposed and passed and nationalize internet.
@95R9B3C4 days
social media posts should be understood to not be private and should be subject to hate speech law enforcement
@95R696Z4 days
Free speech should be protected at all cost
@95QVRRHRepublican4 days
Destroy large social media companies. They are a terrible thing for society.
@95QT55F4 days
They need to check if it's something like comedy, like The Onion before doxing them.
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