Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "The leaders of many tech companies have every interest in promoting the new US ...
"The leaders of many tech companies have every interest in promoting the new US government and in weakening resolve in the EU. Member states with leaders sympathetic to Trump, such as Hungary and Italy, are being courted alike so that EU policy can be weakened from the inside.
The tech giants are adopting this robust strategy not because they are strong — they know that, like X in Brazil, they cannot take on any determined government or legal system in a significant market and win. They are doing this because they know they are weak, and that they need allies. Their business model depends upon it.
And as the business models of most social media platforms require engagement above all — for without engagement you cannot have data mining and monetising and advertising — it really does not matter that the engagement is generated and amplified by misinformation and disinformation.
Moderation and fact-checking are expensive. If the social media platforms were obliged, under pain of legal sanction, to make such moderation and fact-checking work, then that would be the commercial way forward. International corporations will tend to comply with the applicable law, and the expense of compliance is a cost of business."
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
#SocialMedia #Twitter #Meta #ContentModeration #FactChecking #USA #Trump #Imperialism
The tech giants are adopting this robust strategy not because they are strong — they know that, like X in Brazil, they cannot take on any determined government or legal system in a significant market and win. They are doing this because they know they are weak, and that they need allies. Their business model depends upon it.
And as the business models of most social media platforms require engagement above all — for without engagement you cannot have data mining and monetising and advertising — it really does not matter that the engagement is generated and amplified by misinformation and disinformation.
Moderation and fact-checking are expensive. If the social media platforms were obliged, under pain of legal sanction, to make such moderation and fact-checking work, then that would be the commercial way forward. International corporations will tend to comply with the applicable law, and the expense of compliance is a cost of business."
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
#SocialMedia #Twitter #Meta #ContentModeration #FactChecking #USA #Trump #Imperialism