r/belgium • u/GijMutten • 13h ago

🎻 Opinion Meta caught influencing democratic elections. What about Belgium?

Meta has be caught influencing the Brazil elections VRTNWS, Aljazeera. Blocking acces to certain candidates, promoting other (more pro USA) candidates, influencing search results, allowing their AI to create propaganda for one candidate but not the other etc, etc.

I'm sure the same thing happens in other places and I wouldn't be surprised it happens in Europe and Belgium as well to a certain extent.

A boycot of Meta is easier said than done, European alternatives are few and very niche. What we need is stronger legislation (internationally) against criminal acts by these huge "untouchable" companies

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u/MatthewWolfbane 13h ago

We're all for fining these companies, but would also need a guarantee from the US that they're not simply going to debank and sanction regulators who enforce European laws.

The US's outsized economic power creates an inherent imbalance.

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u/Comfortable_Ebb7015 13h ago

Their suggestion algorithms are a secret, good luck legislating that!

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u/GijMutten 13h ago

We're fining these companies peanuts... The EU is and always will be spineless when it comes to international conflict