European Commission6h ago

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

Show threadThe_Universality

@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.

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Show threadConny Nasch6h ago
@The_Universality @EUCommission I am pleased that at least something is being started to help control the overwhelming amount of fake that is installing itself in our social media. Is there is a way to control it if found, or are we just at the beginning?
Show threadThe_Universality6h ago

@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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Show threadThe_Universality6h ago

@connynasch @EUCommission

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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Show threadConny Nasch4h ago
@The_Universality @EUCommission 😁 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/sweden-goes-back-to-basics-swapping-screens-for-books-in-the-classroom/
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores.

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Show threadThe_Universality1h ago

@connynasch @EUCommission Yeah. Heard about this.

Seems reasonable.

Show threadZubair Ahmed6h ago
@The_Universality @EUCommission By trying to control every word and image through these checklists, these institutions are simply 'shooting themselves in the foot.' You cannot trap the human spirit or the truth within a digital cage. Real authenticity exists #BeyondTheAlgorithm. Reality is pure."
Show threadThe_Universality6h ago

@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.

Show threadThe_Universality6h ago

@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.