YouTube and TikTok rarely act on climate misinformation, even when it breaks their own rules - Science Feedback
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A joint investigation by Science Feedback and Fundación Maldita.es reported more than 300 climate misinformation videos in French and Spanish. YouTube never answered, and TikTok restricted only a small minority of them and overturned none of its decisions on appeal.
  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    2 天前

    Shit gets taken down on YouTube all the time. Did the investigators try filing a copyright claim or using a shady lawyer to threaten legal action? How about reaching out to one of the many for-profit organizations with an inside track on YouTube claims processing to expedite the shut down?

    I guess, the real question I’m asking is… how much money did they spend issuing these notices? Because I guarantee a better-financed operation could have gotten it done.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      2 天前

      There’s no federal law about disinformation that puts platforms at any kind of financial risk.

      And you have it exactly backwards. DMCA takedowns are trivially easy to make and expensive to reverse.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 天前

        So lie. Call in a copyright claim. It will just work.

        You may have to pay a large copyright holder to send in the requests for you. But if you payed Sony or Paramount enough money, I bet they’d call in those requests.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 天前

      Still just much numbers to cause panic, asides from moderation tending to focus mostly on English-language cases or no intervention at all (I’m still convinced Youtube’s moderation is automated)

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 天前

    Maybe work on some legislation or campaigns to improve education instead? If they’re being financed by shady companies then investigate their ties. I just don’t see trying to make YouYibe the information police a positive thing. They already do that on behalf of Zionisists and how has that turned out?

    • Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 天前

      Media literacy is essential but not enough. Disinformation is effective because in sufficient volume it bypasses our cognitive mechanisms.

      • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 天前

        Maybe yours? Claiming the election wasn’t stolen in 2020 is disinformation. Anyone claiming otherwise should be banned from social media. See how that works?