Social networks are literally saturated with distorted information, which the Czech government also wants to fight against. miniMinistry of the Interior. In cooperation with the largest social network, it wants to prevent the spread of disinformation that could influence people in the upcoming elections. Representatives miniInterior ministers have already met with a representative of the American company Facebook, and confirmed this information for Aktuálně.cz server spokesman Jiří Korbel.
Although the form of cooperation has not yet been determined, it will probably be similar to that of German or French cooperation.ancgovernments with social networks. Just like the Czech Republic, Germany and Franceancie are preparing elections and are therefore concerned that campaigns with distorted data could influence the results.
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In practice, the fight against disinformation could look like this: Facebooku would report a post that they believe contains misinformation. This post would be forwarded to an independent center that would evaluate whether it contains misleading information or not. If it was disinformation, the social network would mark the post so that users know it is false.
"Facebook can do many things completely independently of the state. Of course, in view of the negotiations that have taken place, we hope that the cooperation will begin as soon as possible,” said spokesman Jiří Korbel. Mark Zuckerberg’s company has not yet commented on this cooperation, but Gabriella Csehová, acting as director of public policy Facebookfor Central and Eastern Europe in an interview for Aktuálně.cz indicated that the social network is dealing with this issue.
Source: Economic newspaper, Aktuálně.cz
And we can be clear about the independence of the "independent" center in advance. Firearms for tightening the screws and censorship of the Internet. Nothing more nothing less.
PS: of course it is only on Facebookas a private company, whether it will censor anything on its website, so even if I don't like it at all, it's their right. What's important is that it publicly declares it and that state censorship is not forcibly implemented across the entire internet, even where the owners don't agree, or that it forces them to agree in any way.
I don't think it's censorship. Rather, it's about refuting completely wrong information that mindlessly and without verification is shared by more and more stupid FB users and other stupid people on FB, when they see how many times it is reinforced, it's definitely true. And I wouldn't really call it censorship, it was there in the past and there is a big difference.
You have to start somehow ;o).
Please remember Orwell.