Google won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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13 points·gmays··7 comments

> Google also points to a new feature added to YouTube last year that enables certain users to add contextual notes to videos, saying that it “has significant potential.” This program is similar to X’s Community Notes and, likely, whatever fresh hell Meta is cooking up.

First Meta and now Google is copying X's community notes now.

It's the dream, offload every conceivable externality onto your "customer". Risks to privacy? Your problem. Need to moderate and quality control? Your problem. If it can't be handled by an "AI" then it's down to the relative handful of human mods being paid low wages in a distant country.

The scale that Google, Meta, and X operate at doesn't allow for affordable moderation, so they've always shoved the consequences of that onto us.

If the alternative is Reddit's hyper-moderation I'd choose community notes on Youtube every time

I think asking them to fact check search results is probably unreasonable. Depends how far they are expected to go.

> Depends how far they are expected to go.

Once you give them a small in they'll keep expanding the scope endlessly

Sounds like the EU needs to increase the fines.

So the deal is now clear. The quid pro quo: BigTech will ignore EU laws, and Trump will be the bully that is supposed to protect them during the school break.

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