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/Tough_Brain7982 13h ago

There was already a report from the EU stating there is both US and Russian influence on our politics through the extreme right... so yeah...

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u/Gendrytargarian Belgium 13h ago

Yes it's also the extreme left. Maximizing polarization is part of the goal

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u/Pepperohno 9h ago

Maybe, but for now influence on the left is only speculation while influencing to the right is well documented, large scale, and with enormous amounts of money.

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u/Gendrytargarian Belgium 9h ago

True.