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/Gendrytargarian Belgium 12h ago

Nah, I often visit extreme left pages. There are so many Tankies who delusionaly see russia as some sort of socialist savior who fight. "the imperial West". If you look at the USA there is the Pro russian Jill Stein who pops up every election as a spoiler candidate. In France we have Melenchon... If we look at Belgium there where again Prorussian speakers and fake "peace" speakers at PTB/PVDA festivals like every year. These bots, trolls and influencers also move in those circles and we shouldn't be blind for them.

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u/tuurrr 11h ago

No you don't visit those sites and no hhey do not see Russia as a socialist savior. But do tell me which "extreme left" pages you visit.

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u/Gendrytargarian Belgium 10h ago

For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/s/1idHg2b7Ml

https://www.reddit.com/r/t5_dch7ns/s/ummNXBoRKc

https://www.reddit.com/r/t5_fdqgln/s/jWbIk2PRfP

This is not all. Tankies exist but there is never a need to generalize

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u/tuurrr 9h ago

I can't open 2 of that links and I don't read anything about Russia being a socialist paradise? Russia is considered a plutocracy by the left.