UK Government Pressures Social Media Giants To Tackle “Misinformation” Ahead of Elections

The government also pushes for cooperation between government and Big Tech companies.

“In October, Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary, Michelle Donelan, hosted a roundtable with the UK leaders of social media companies Google, Meta, X, TikTok, and Snapchat to discuss the spread of antisemitism, violent content, and misinformation following the Hamas attack on Israel,” one report said.

And Bhatti, the “tech nerd,” thinks another such “intervention” could be needed – this time related to the general election.

Bhatti’s by no means an outlier here – this is clearly the current UK government’s policy. Only this week, Home Secretary James Cleverly was in the US, to “convene” with Apple, Google, Meta, and X.

🔗Source: ReclaimTheNet

2/25 — Censorship Continues on 'Free Speech Platform' X, Elon Musk Expanding Contracts With Intelligence Agencies After Saying 'I Have Actual Mossad Merch BTW. ... CIA Has Some Really Great Merch'

In the September interview Yaccarino gave to Financial Times, she said X would be hiring more people to combat election disinformation.

"Yaccarino assures me X is staffing up ahead of the campaign by “expanding the safety and election teams all around the world to focus on combating things like manipulation, surfacing of inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for any emerging threats”. "

As Mr. Considerate pointed out, the next day, Elon Musk “announced his social media company X … has removed the team monitoring election misinformation.”

I would wager this was because her interview caught negative publicity and scrutiny.

In reality, Elon Musk didn’t remove the election team, he just “made cuts”, as NBC put it.

Mashable: “Twitter/X just fired half of its election integrity team"
"Linda Yaccarino recently said X was going to expand the team that it just gutted

Related: Meta Launches Real-Time Content Censorship Unit for 2024 Elections

2/21 — Google To Start Running “Prebunk” Ads and Quizzing YouTube Viewers To Fight So-Called “Misinformation”

— Meta Is Expanding Its Controversial “Fact-Checking” Program to Other Platforms

2/8 — YouTube CEO Vows to Censor “Hate Speech" and Boost “Authoritative Sources” When People Look for Election News

2/7 — Biden’s AI Plan to Censor You Revealed: Researchers Say Americans Can’t ‘Tell Fact From Fiction’

2/8 — U.S. Senator Argues “Misinformation or Disinformation” Shouldn’t Have First Amendment Protections

2/2 — Microsoft CEO Says the Company Is Working To Address Election “Disinformation and Misinformation”

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