The “Humanity Steps Repeatedly on the Rake Called Social Media Challenge” is going swimmingly.
That’s scary, EU parliament summoning a publisher because they don’t like the preliminary election result in one of the member states.
I’d hoped they’d represent the people. Here, they’re doing the opposite.
It’s because they represent the people that they have to investigate whether the platform acted as a neutral platform or as a manipulative foreign agent sabotaging society.
@iii Nobody said that. It is not about not liking the outcome of an election. It is about the unchecked active disinformation happening there that literally brought a schizo who practices pseudoscience in the 1st place.
And it is also about DSA.
Nobody said that.
I know. These are my own thoughts.
It is not about not liking the outcome of an election.
There have been many elections in EU, concurrent to the existance of that publisher, that did not require their presence in front of the EU parliament.
What changed?
- Awareness of influence - of private and foreign huge social media platforms onto public discourse, opinion development, and political landscape
- Increasing foreign agent campaigns to influence and sabotage Europe governments and society
- Increased awareness of such foreign influences
- Unexpected/Unpredictable shifts in popularity [is how I read it]
with many concerns focused on how a TikTok campaign managed to propel an unknown candidate from obscurity
