ClosingADoor
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They'll have a few more months to figure that out and to talk with the German government about it now.The amount of people Facebook would need to police 2 billion accounts would be extremely impractical, not to mention training, paying, and providing mental health care to those employees.
AI isn't advanced enough to handle fake news, maybe hate speech, but not fake news.
I agree. I just am struggling to think of a practical way Facebook or other social media giants would be able to avoid paying the fine.
I imagine it would mostly be about reporting content and just removing it quickly after. They can implement a strike system to ban people from publically posting if they go into the wrong too much, just like a lot of sites do.
It will be expensive and time consuming for them for sure, but probably also something that will mostly be much more work at the start. If people know after a while their stuff gets removed or banned, they'll stop posting it there.
I still would like a source that explains the fake news thing, because most outlets don't mention that and just point to hate speech, inciting violence and defamation. Those can overlap with fake news of course, but I don't think Germany itself is making them remove something as vague as fake news in this law?