In January 2018 Germany passed the NetzDG law which required platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down perceived illegal content within 24 hours or seven days, depending on the charge, or risk a fine of €50 million ($60 million) fines. In July 2018 representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter denied to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary committee that they censor content for political reasons. During the hearing Republican members of Congress criticized the social media companies for politically motivated practices in removing some content, a charge the…
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The government should not regulate, but make an effort to correct false information. For example, how Facebook places a pop up over a post to warn of possible false information.
@9V7CCZWNew Democratic7mos7MO
It really depends on whether the government would have an effective plan in place to make the social media companies that are primarilly based in USA and China to listen.
@9P8NRFMNew Democratic 10mos10MO
Yes, but not to the extent where the government has the ability of complete censorship & control of media.
@95B8G6TNew Democratic3yrs3Y
No, but the sites should be mandated to take proper unbiased care of the posts on their site
@Araxiel3yrs3Y
No, any type of regulation of the internet is going to be useless at best and harmful at worst
@8ZV9JJWNew Democratic3yrs3Y
Only if it's to protect scientific facts and only scientific facts from misinformation.
@8SD6JYBNew Democratic4yrs4Y
No, the government shouldn't regulate social media but there should be a specific branch of well-informed, non-politically biased people to regulate it.
@8QTRJSZNew Democratic4yrs4Y
No, social media companies should better regulate fake news by themselves without government influence.
@8QFCQGTNew Democratic4yrs4Y
Yes, by setting national standards that social media companies must enforce.
@98WW25PNew Democratic2yrs2Y
Only by non-partisan entities unaffiliated with any party
@92PSZX3New Democratic3yrs3Y
Yes, but only with an unpolitical, highly-educated expert task force
@8TMS3BNNew Democratic4yrs4Y
no but fake news is corrupting society
@8Z2Q8HKNew Democratic3yrs3Y
This should be regulated, but by independent unaffiliated companies, not the government.
@8XM5JKTNew Democratic3yrs3Y
No, but social media companies should regulate what is and isn't fake news and misinformation much better than it currently does
@8VGXY5JNew Democratic4yrs4Y
No but please end untruths
@8V6K63MNew Democratic4yrs4Y
yes, but only by a created task force that is required to be non partisan
@5643HNN4yrs4Y
Yes, by reintroducing the FCC Fairness Doctrine
@8CFLXGH5yrs5Y
No, but there should be some sort of check in place to help limit the spread of misinformation on social media
@8QDSNZY4yrs4Y
It depends on the site and how much harm it can create
@8SFDLS64yrs4Y
No, but the government should be able to give fair penalties to websites with large user-bases if they do not regulate the spread of misinformation themselves.
@8T67P4N4yrs4Y
Misinformation should be flagged but the government should not control what is put on social media unless it's harmful or encourages violence.
@2GB8K924yrs4Y
No, but categorize social media platforms as public utilities and regulate them as such
@5SX94C9New Democratic5yrs5Y
No, but only because the government can not be trusted to fairly and accurately regulate the rampant misinformation on social media.
@75KRFBJ4yrs4Y
No, this should be left to social media companies, with the government intervening if it gets out of control.
@7PTCG383yrs3Y
No, but government should encourage self-regulation of social media companies through increased fines when perceived and/or proven illegal content is not removed within a set period of time
@7PTCG383yrs3Y
No, but Congress should pass a law that will increase the self-regulation of social media companies through increased fines when perceived and/or proven illegal content is not removed within a set period of time
@8PKXR3W4yrs4Y
They should break up their corporate powers, but not because of the news that is on them.
@8S2LJ244yrs4Y
Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media, as well as politically biased social media companies also contributing to the spread of fake news and misinformation.
@8XTW3QC3yrs3Y
Yes, only with instances where fake news and misinformation threaten national security
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