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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies (globalnation.inquirer.net)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If you ban social media companies that don't regulate their shit you won't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

If we ban social media companies* we won't.

Privately owned social media is a tool of media manipulation. You can change the weights of some inscrutable algorithm and boost exposure to political ideologies that you want while no one can truly make a case against you, "it's just the algorithm" they say. There's no scenario where they should be allowed to exist in a sovereign country.