🦅 Germany Considers Law to Force Social Media Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News

「 Then platforms would be legally required to alter their algorithms to prioritize this content. The paper even floats a “legal quota” for how much state-approved content must appear in feeds 」

https://nonogra.ph/germany-considers-law-to-force-social-media-algorithm-boost-for-state-approved-news-05-27-2026

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Germany Considers Law to Force Social Media Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News

> The regulators who would decide what counts as "reliable" news are appointed through a chain that starts with the same politicians whose coverage they'd be cu...

@jbz I suppose at least I’m glad they’re trying to do it out in the open, not surreptitiously like I’m pretty sure Zuck has done. But also ew.