Fact-checking is more important than ever.
In a world shaped by AI-generated content, deepfakes, and increasingly sophisticated misleading narratives, it’s becoming harder to tell what’s real and what’s not.
That’s why we’re acting - with stronger rules and tools to tackle disinformation:
🔹The Digital Services Act
🔹The Code of Conduct on disinformation
🔹EUvsDisinfo
🔹European Digital Media Observatory
Spotting and stopping it is a shared responsibility.
Before sharing content online, consider:
✔️ Check the source
✔️ Be cautious of strong emotional content
✔️ Verify images authenticity
✔️ Use fact-checking sites
✔️ Stop the spread of disinformation
@EUCommission Still the media keeps sharing the constantlies from tRump and his cronies. They call it news but they parrot lies from the us and russia alike.
Peskov says, tRump says...
Research shows it clearly: a tiny fraction of supersharers—many from coordinated troll farms—are responsible for spreading the vast majority of misinformation. Yet institutions keep blaming everyday people for the problem.
https://www.science.org/content/article/tiny-number-supersharers-spread-vast-majority-fake-news
Stop shifting responsibility onto victims!
We won't solve misinformation by policing individual shares when the real sources operate at scale.
We won't reduce pollution by asking families to recycle while corporations emit freely.
We won't address climate change through personal choices when billionaires fly private jets and yachts.
The pattern is the same: systemic problems require systemic solutions. Targeting individuals while ignoring the infrastructure of disinformation is both ineffective and unfair.
The EU Commission's post misses the mark entirely.
This page provides an overview of the designated Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) supervised by the Commission and the main enforcement activities.
@EUCommission We shall for sure form a society-wide effort to educate older generations regarding not only this, but scams as well.
But I'm a bit of skeptical with the rules.
Don't get me wrong, we shall sanction deepfakes. But the law doesn't protect uneducated on all the scams / fakes to not fall victim to those. They can at most sanction the one who did it, if we'd be able to find the culprit.
We should put a huge emphasis on education.
@connynasch @EUCommission Well, there are some options.
The worst but most effective in regard to finding who is outputting disinformation / deepfakes is requiring all accounts to be ID verified.
Why is this bad? At least the company, if not everyone, will know who you really are causing a great harm to free press.
And you still might get bypassed.
Another bad option would be AI. (I think I needn't explain why this is bad idea).
Another is censorship. Allowing only some to post.
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Non of these a great and frankly, there's no bullet proof solution to this.
The best solution by me would be a huge investments into education regarding propaganda, fakes, scams & existing technologies. Even for the older generations.
Society wide resilience towards fakes will take time, but it seems as the best option.
Why?
Because if you only sanction disinformation and not educate others about it, they will fall victim.
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@connynasch @EUCommission Yeah. Heard about this.
Seems reasonable.
@Zubair123kk @EUCommission Exactly.
Needless to say there are no technologies to reliably detect truth and even if those would exists, how would we be able to tell if they aren't tempered with by someone?
We wouldn't be able to.
@EUCommission This also reminds me of something important. If there is one regulation I'm for it would be regulating algorithms.
Algorithms as of now on most social-media are formed to drag you in presenting you mostly what you like or you'd like.
What is the issue there?
It locks users into bubbles.
We shall want the algorithm ration to be at least 60% user preferred content / 40% non preferred content.
Almost as if externalising media competency and critical thinking was a bad idea.
We need basically everyone trained in doing it themselves or nobody - not even a government backed institution - will be able to keep up with misinformation from "AI-generated content, deepfakes, and increasingly sophisticated misleading narratives".
This page provides an overview of the designated Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) supervised by the Commission and the main enforcement activities.
When will we ban X (exTwitter) from Europe?
@EUCommission Without punishing those who deliberately spread lies, it will be very difficult to fight disinformation. It’s easier to create 100 pieces of disinformation than to debunk just one. But everyone is afraid to punish, because they ask: "Who decides what is a lie and what is the truth?"
We’re losing.
The EU should take its own advice.
Speak the truth about Israel.
Stop suppressing and censoring it.
And stop denying your complicity in Israel's genocide and war crimes.
Sanction Israel.
Double standards is no standards.
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