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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Response rates from 14.8k Australia voters.
39% Yes |
61% No |
34% Yes |
49% No |
2% Yes, there is too much fake news and misinformation on social media |
8% No, the government should not determine what is fake or real news |
2% Yes, social media companies are politically biased and need to be regulated |
4% No, social media companies are private and should not be regulated by the government |
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Unique answers from Australia voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
@B33ZG2T1 day1D
Media companies should be required to report accurate and true information, without the drama and clickbait headlines. Any outlet that is deemed to go against the best interest of the people and or publishes overly dramatized headlines and information should see fines that correspond.
@B3333Z63 days3D
No but they should regulate news corporations who write blatant misinformation and end the Murdoch monopoly
@B32RT3F3 days3D
Yes, but give regulation control to an independent body that cannot be tampered with by the government.
@B2YG9YM6 days6D
Yes but researchers and scientists (political, historical, data, sociological) should be the people determining what is fact or not. Journalism is still incredibly important. We should limit misinformation with instead fact checkers from peer reviewed sources THEN opinions should be outlined as such.
@B2SXP9S2wks2W
Yes, but give regulation control to a department that is independent of government and implement measures to ensure its impartiality.
@B2L3WL43wks3W
Yes and no, the social media sites should not be spreading fake news and misinformation, however, policies need to be in place to ensure the government is not using that to spread propaganda and keep citizens in the dark about what is actually going on.
@B2HMHT54wks4W
No, but there should be a fact-checking system separate from both the government and the site to prevent government control
@B2FTPK3 1mo1MO
Yes, to an extent. Repeat offenders of spreading deliberately incorrect information should be liable to punishment for something in a similar vein to defamation.
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