The EU is requesting feedback on how to protect democracy and combat misinformation
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use your voice
If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you're unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.
EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.
It will take 10 minutes if you're quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.
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- lt lietuvių kalba
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What the heck is with this blurry graph rendering?
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use your voice
If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you're unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.
EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.
It will take 10 minutes if you're quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.
You can respond in any of the 24 European languages, so if English is not your preferred language, use your mother tongue.
If you are part of a community in your EU mother tongue, share a link to this in your mother tongue.Here are the supported languages:
- bg български
- cs čeština
- da dansk
- de Deutsch
- el Ελληνικά
- en English
- es español
- et eesti
- fi suomi
- fr français
- ga Gaeilge
- hr hrvatski
- hu Magyar
- it Italiano
- lt lietuvių kalba
- lv latviešu valoda
- mt Malti
- nl Nederlands
- pl polski
- pt Português
- ro română
- sk slovenčina
- sl slovenščina
- sv svenska
What a shit cookie banner…
The list of cookies is huge, in a table that doesn't even fit the page. What the heck would "all" be? Guess I have to choose "essential only".
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10 mins? damn you guys are fast. it took me that time just to realize there is a document.
Took me about 30
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use your voice
If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you're unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.
EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.
It will take 10 minutes if you're quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.
You can respond in any of the 24 European languages, so if English is not your preferred language, use your mother tongue.
If you are part of a community in your EU mother tongue, share a link to this in your mother tongue.Here are the supported languages:
- bg български
- cs čeština
- da dansk
- de Deutsch
- el Ελληνικά
- en English
- es español
- et eesti
- fi suomi
- fr français
- ga Gaeilge
- hr hrvatski
- hu Magyar
- it Italiano
- lt lietuvių kalba
- lv latviešu valoda
- mt Malti
- nl Nederlands
- pl polski
- pt Português
- ro română
- sk slovenčina
- sl slovenščina
- sv svenska
I filled it out. Did have some additional comments I added. In the conclusion I raised two other related points not referenced in the questionaire.
I think the most efficient (considering effectiveness, viability, and implementation effort) approaches would be
- Require transparency of curation and promotion algorithms of big platforms
- Teach literacy, critical thinking, and risk awareness in schools from a young age
- Hold politicians accountable for claims and deliberate lies
- Reduce social inequality
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use your voice
If you are concerned about people being influenced by Russia, the US, and China, be it via Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, local ads, or whatever else, if you are concerned about that friend who suddenly started spouting anti-EU rhetoric from Youtube, if you're unhappy with how the EU and member states have handled it so far, this is for you.
EU citizens can respond and it would be in our interest to do so too.
It will take 10 minutes if you're quick, longer if you want to leave comments on each point. There are 4 points with up to 4 sub points, each comment can be 3500 characters long.
You can respond in any of the 24 European languages, so if English is not your preferred language, use your mother tongue.
If you are part of a community in your EU mother tongue, share a link to this in your mother tongue.Here are the supported languages:
- bg български
- cs čeština
- da dansk
- de Deutsch
- el Ελληνικά
- en English
- es español
- et eesti
- fi suomi
- fr français
- ga Gaeilge
- hr hrvatski
- hu Magyar
- it Italiano
- lt lietuvių kalba
- lv latviešu valoda
- mt Malti
- nl Nederlands
- pl polski
- pt Português
- ro română
- sk slovenčina
- sl slovenščina
- sv svenska
Hey can someone put in a good word for Canada on a Canadian's behalf? Cheers
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Taxing the rich out of existence is the number one way of protecting democracy AND combatting misinformation AND improving your standard of living.
It's the most important thing everyone should be pushing all of their political representatives to do. Tax wealth, remove the ultra wealthy.
Thanks, I agree. It would be great if you made that comment official by logging into the website
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Thanks, I agree. It would be great if you made that comment official by logging into the website
Let your opinion be heard by the commission @[email protected]I'm on it boss 🫡 the moment I'm home.
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The investment in a social democracy/ social safety it ultimately what is safeguarding Europe, because it precludes the motivations/ grievances which create surface area for misinformation to operate on. Its not that it isn’t possible, it just has a much more difficult time taking hold.
The UK is a great example of this, where they seem religiously committed to austerity as the approach for addressing most issues; this gave rise to grievance politics because, well, austerity does hurt people; grievance politics gives misinformation something to operate on (its the continents fault); brexxit happens; life gets worse; misinformation gains an even further foothold because now its premise has been validated, and there is even more grievance to operate on.
Grievance is the scar tissue which misinformation operates upon. Misinformation is the bacteria which spread and cause death, but without the wound of grievance, there is nothing to do. Creates strong mechanisms for grievances to be addressed (engaged democratic processes; responsive governance).
Whatever actual or perceived grievances a person may have (even though merely being born in Europe already constitutes winning the global class lottery) - that only ever causes vulnurability.
That person then turning to actively undermining democratic systems and the international community is something that only happens if some con artist uses that vulnurability to convince the person that it constitutes a solution to their problems.Universal wealth and happiness are nice, but the immediate, separate and and more solveable issue is not microphones and political offices to con artists. Letting folk get scammed out of their vote is just as detrimental to a healthy society as letting folk get scammed out of their life savings - if not more.
Whatever actual or perceived grievances a person may have (even though merely being born in Europe already constitutes winning the global class lottery) - that only ever causes vulnurability. That person then turning to actively undermining democratic systems and the international community is something that only happens if some con artist uses that vulnurability to convince the person that it constitutes a solution to their problems.
I mean I 100% agree. I'm not justifying them in their perceived grievance, rather, I'm offering a mechanism in "how things come to pass". My assessment is that if you can make the grievances minor/ absurd, you remove any leverage for the conman.
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Whatever actual or perceived grievances a person may have (even though merely being born in Europe already constitutes winning the global class lottery) - that only ever causes vulnurability. That person then turning to actively undermining democratic systems and the international community is something that only happens if some con artist uses that vulnurability to convince the person that it constitutes a solution to their problems.
I mean I 100% agree. I'm not justifying them in their perceived grievance, rather, I'm offering a mechanism in "how things come to pass". My assessment is that if you can make the grievances minor/ absurd, you remove any leverage for the conman.
I mean I 100% agree. I’m not justifying them in their perceived grievance, rather, I’m offering a mechanism in “how things come to pass”. My assessment is that if you can make the grievances minor/ absurd, you remove any leverage for the conman.
Sure! But, again, why let conmen walk around in the meantime? That seems like an entirely unnecessary and easy-to-tackle problem.
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I’m European first but Swiss second, so not an EU citizen unfortunately.
There’s an option for Non-EU citizens
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