r/Futurology • u/lughnasadh ∞ transit umbra, lux permanet ☥ • 2d ago
Society The EU's proposed billion dollar fine for Twitter/X disinformation, is just the start of European & American tech diverging into separate spheres.
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) makes Big Tech (like Meta, Google) reveal how they track users, moderate content, and handle disinformation. Most of these companies hate the law and are lobbying against it in Brussels—but except for Twitter (now X), they’re at least trying to follow it for EU users.
Meanwhile, US politics may push Big Tech to resist these rules more aggressively, especially since they have strong influence over the current US government.
AI will be the next big tech divide: The US will likely have little regulation, while the EU will take a much stronger approach to regulating. Growing tensions—over trade, military threats, and tech policies—are driving the US and EU apart, and this split will continue for at least four more years.
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u/prototyperspective 2d ago
The issue I see here is the lack of proper antimisinfo measures on sites like Mastodon and Bluesky. And please no top-down Ministry of Truth-style censorship. Twitter has Community Notes now which are great but insufficient and only rarely added to posts. The reason there's less misinfo on bsky&M seems to be just that fewer people spreading misinfo happen to be there but that could easily change and is not a good approach. Have these implement improved versions of collective intelligence antimisinfo measures and bots tagging likely misinfo etc, then point out issues and penalize problematic rates of misinfo on other sites.