65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.

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    1 year ago

    65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online

    aren’t those tech companies the one who kept boosting false information on the first place to get ad revenue? FB did it, YouTube did it, Twitter did it, Google did it.

    How about breaking them up into smaller companies first?

    I thought the labels on potential COVID or election disinformation were pretty good, until companies stopped doing so.

    Why not do that again? Those who are gonna claim that it’s censorship, will always do so. But, what’s needed to be done is to prevent those who are not well informed to fall into antivax / far-right rabbit hole.

    Also, force content creators / websites to prominently show who are funding / paying them.