Indonesian gov't orders Meta and TikTok to raise the moderation of harmful content

The government of Indonesia has called on social network platforms, Meta and TikTok, to raise the moderation of harmful content, including disinformation, which is usually spread via their ￰0￱ Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) revealed that they had summoned representatives from TikTok as well as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms to address disinformation and fake news that circulate on their ￰1￱ comes as the move towards social media as a source of news has also fuelled misinformation and disinformation, making it ￰2￱ triggered public protests in Indonesia According to reports, the Indonesian government’s move follows community demonstrations on ￰3￱ Deputy Minister Angga Raka Prabowo told Reuters that the disinformation on the social media platforms angered communities, resulting in public protests on Monday, August ￰4￱ initiatives by Komdigi show that most of the disinformation content is widely spread on TikTok and ￰5￱ the summons, the government urged the platforms to improve their content moderation and act more ￰6￱ and Meta risk suspension and hefty fines if they fail to comply with the government’s demands.

“They must comply with the rules because our goal is to protect this ￰7￱ in the rules are reprimands, fines, temporary suspension, revoking of access or even kicking them out from a list of registered electronic platforms,” said Angga. “The impact (of disinformation) is chaos… And people do not receive accurate and complete information,” he ￰8￱ comes as some studies have shown that TikTok, in particular, has ushered in a new era of misinformation online, exposing its users, mostly the young, to inaccurate ￰9￱ Guardian carried out an investigation and found that when TikTok users searched for top mental health videos, over half of them contained ￰10￱ ranged from harmless advice like consuming oranges in the shower to ease anxiety to dangerous misinformation about mental health and dubious ￰11￱ plans to summon other social platforms According to a Reuters report, the Indonesian government will also ask the platforms to delete such content, including anything pertaining to pornography and online ￰12￱ separate meetings with Meta and TikTok are set for this week, Angga revealed that the government will also extend an invitation to Elon Musk’s X platform and ￰13￱ TikTok and Meta account for more than 100 million accounts each, based in Indonesia, which is one of the biggest in the ￰14￱ cited some cases of disinformation in the country, which included a deep fake video of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati saying teachers were a burden on the ￰15￱ added that some content has mislabelled previous footage of riots in the capital Jakarta as being ￰16￱ was referring to Monday’s public protests when hundreds clashed with police and faced ￰17￱ of the protesters were below 18 years of age, as they protested against excessive pay and perks for members of ￰18￱ Child Protection Commission revealed that some of the detained youth had joined the demonstrations after watching TikTok videos calling for protests, according to ￰19￱ spread of disinformation on social media platforms is not unique to Indonesia ￰20￱ at MIT found that fake news can spread up to 10 times faster than true reporting on social ￰21￱ researchers also indicated that when explosive and misinforming posts go viral, their corrections do not get as widely viewed or ￰22￱ Taiwan , the government earlier this year accused China of AI-powered misinformation to divide the people of Taiwan, according to the National Security Bureau of that ￰23￱ smartest crypto minds already read our ￰24￱ in?

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