Europeans want decisive action against disinformation on the internet::More than half of all EU citizens doubt the truthfulness of the information they find online. Recognizing false content and actively responding to it is easier for the young and the educated. Almost nine out of ten Europeans feel tech companies and policymakers both have a responsibility to combat…
So how exactly would you do it without room for abuse?
You don’t. The “room for abuse” is exactly what disinformation peddlers want to have codified.
After all, with enough money, it’d be easy for bad actors to get their agents into “independent” information veracity panels.
The only way I can think of to reliably stop disinformation is to reduce or eliminate society’s dependence on money. Otherwise, money will always talk, and everybody has their price.
Honestly, I think the truth is simpler. Humans are a very large group, and just by sheer numbers there will always be idiots and assholes. I consider them to be canaries. If theres idiots, if theres disagreements and arguments, then theres valuable discussion to be had.
Find ways to minimize the time & energy that you and others around you spend on rewarding idiots and assholes for being such.
It simply just is earier to make up false information, than to debunk it. I can come up with an insane claim right now, and before you’ve googled the explanation to why I’m wrong, I’ve already came up with 3 new ones.
I think they might also mean “room for abuse” as in people abusing said guidelines to attack people or subjects they don’t like though erroneous reporting and poor enforcement of those guidelines (you already see it happen with something like community notes), abuse can go both ways with something like this.
You also highlight an important point in that people who create the disinformation already know how to get around barriers and telling them what is and isn’t explicitly will just make their job easier, so in essence such rules and guidelines only hurt anyone else, the people who would be on the receiving end of abusive reporting, or abuse of the correction systems.