Der südkoreanische Präsident fordert Maßnahmen, um gefälschte Nachrichten auf YouTube einzudämmen

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In the age of halfway convincing AI there needs to be restrictions in place for news.

So in Covid over here in Australia this story came out that people from the city were taking buses to country supermarkets to „raid“ them. There were first name quotes from local witnesses but strangely no photographs. No photos of the buses or people loading groceries in them. No evidence of buses being leased.

This story got traction such that a major figure of the Government issued a statement threatening to crack down on these raiders.

Zero of it was true. There were no buses. There were no raids. The people quoted do not exist.

And yet these stories were spread and amplified on Facebook and other social media.

There were zero consequences for the lying journalists. Zero consequences for the lying publisher. Zero consequences for all those who pushed these entirely false articles online.

Today those articles have been vanished online. They only exist in weird cached pages and random archive sites.

There was no investigation of what should be a crime.

We desperately need to go after fake news from the source to those who spread it. Studies show most fake news comes from an incredibly small number of accounts. Small to the point that a few people with a week and a ban button could wipe out masses of, say, antivaxxer lies on Facebook.

But Facebook will never do this because engagement is advertising dollar eyeballs.

It’s good business to have people ranting about imaginary immigrant crimes and the Governments love it when they can put out their BS tough on crime statements in response.

Some country needs to do it. A truth in journalism law. A law about spreading fake news. It’s vital for the health of all democracies globally.