Study - Europeans want decisive action against disinformation on the Internet
www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de
More than half of all EU citizens doubt the truthfulness of the information they find online. Recognizing false content and actively responding to it is easier for the young and the educated. Almost nine out of ten Europeans feel tech companies and policymakers both have a responsibility to combat...

Europeans want decisive action against disinformation on the internet::More than half of all EU citizens doubt the truthfulness of the information they find online. Recognizing false content and actively responding to it is easier for the young and the educated. Almost nine out of ten Europeans feel tech companies and policymakers both have a responsibility to combat…

    • BumpingFugliesEnglish
      136·
      1 year ago

      You don’t. The “room for abuse” is exactly what disinformation peddlers want to have codified.

      After all, with enough money, it’d be easy for bad actors to get their agents into “independent” information veracity panels.

      The only way I can think of to reliably stop disinformation is to reduce or eliminate society’s dependence on money. Otherwise, money will always talk, and everybody has their price.

      • Throwaway@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, I think the truth is simpler. Humans are a very large group, and just by sheer numbers there will always be idiots and assholes. I consider them to be canaries. If theres idiots, if theres disagreements and arguments, then theres valuable discussion to be had.

        • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Find ways to minimize the time & energy that you and others around you spend on rewarding idiots and assholes for being such.

      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it might actually be easier to solve the misinformation problem head-on, than to completely overhaul the dominant economic system on the planet. That’s literally the nuclear option, and it isn’t even obvious how that is going to solve anything, and not just cause a bunch of new issues.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think they might also mean “room for abuse” as in people abusing said guidelines to attack people or subjects they don’t like though erroneous reporting and poor enforcement of those guidelines (you already see it happen with something like community notes), abuse can go both ways with something like this.

        You also highlight an important point in that people who create the disinformation already know how to get around barriers and telling them what is and isn’t explicitly will just make their job easier, so in essence such rules and guidelines only hurt anyone else, the people who would be on the receiving end of abusive reporting, or abuse of the correction systems.