Social media sites such as Facebook and X will still have to comply with UK law, Science Secretary Peter Kyle has said, following a decision by tech giant Meta to change rules on fact-checkers.Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta includes Facebook and Instagram, said earlier this week that the shift – which only applies in the US – would mean content moderators will “catch less bad stuff” but would also reduce the number of “innocent” posts being removed. Kyle told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show the announcement was “an American statement for American service users”.”If you come and operate in this country you abide by the law, and the law says illegal content must be taken down,” he added. On Saturday Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, who took her own life at 14 after seeing harmful content online, urged the prime minister to tighten internet safety rules, saying the UK was “going backwards” on the issue. He said Zuckerberg and X boss Elon Musk were moving away from safety towards a “laissez-faire, anything-goes model”.He said the companies were moving “back towards the harmful content that Molly was exposed to”. A Meta spokesperson told the BBC there was “no change to how we treat content that encourages suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders” and said the company would “continue to use our automated systems to scan for that high-severity content”.Internet safety campaigners complain that there are gap …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnSocial media sites such as Facebook and X will still have to comply with UK law, Science Secretary Peter Kyle has said, following a decision by tech giant Meta to change rules on fact-checkers.Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta includes Facebook and Instagram, said earlier this week that the shift – which only applies in the US – would mean content moderators will “catch less bad stuff” but would also reduce the number of “innocent” posts being removed. Kyle told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show the announcement was “an American statement for American service users”.”If you come and operate in this country you abide by the law, and the law says illegal content must be taken down,” he added. On Saturday Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, who took her own life at 14 after seeing harmful content online, urged the prime minister to tighten internet safety rules, saying the UK was “going backwards” on the issue. He said Zuckerberg and X boss Elon Musk were moving away from safety towards a “laissez-faire, anything-goes model”.He said the companies were moving “back towards the harmful content that Molly was exposed to”. A Meta spokesperson told the BBC there was “no change to how we treat content that encourages suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders” and said the company would “continue to use our automated systems to scan for that high-severity content”.Internet safety campaigners complain that there are gap …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
