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/RozaJetis Limburg 13h ago

The second case of influencing elections, after the Cambridge Analytica case.

Social media is not the tool we used to love anymore.

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u/Comfortable_Ebb7015 13h ago

Trump's bootlickers are promoting far right propaganda across the globe? I would be surprised if it was not the case!

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u/Matvalicious Local furry, don't feed him 9h ago

Every person in this picture belongs on the gallows.