What’s changing?

Platforms have started rolling out new ways for European users to flag illegal online content and dodgy products, which companies will be obligated to take down quickly and objectively.

Amazon opened a new channel for reporting suspected illegal products and is providing more information about third-party merchants.

TikTok gave users an “additional reporting option” for content, including advertising, that they believe is illegal. Categories such as hate speech and harassment, suicide and self-harm, misinformation or frauds and scams, will help them pinpoint the problem.

Then, a “new dedicated team of moderators and legal specialists” will determine whether flagged content either violates its policies or is unlawful and should be taken down, according to the app from Chinese parent company ByteDance.

TikTok says the reason for a takedown will be explained to the person who posted the material and the one who flagged it, and decisions can be appealed.

TikTok users can turn off systems that recommend videos based on what a user has previously viewed. Such systems have been blamed for leading social media users to increasingly extreme posts. If personalized recommendations are turned off, TikTok’s feeds will instead suggest videos to European users based on what’s popular in their area and around the world.

The DSA prohibits targeting vulnerable categories of people, including children, with ads.

Snapchat said advertisers won’t be able to use personalization and optimization tools for teens in the EU and U.K. Snapchat users who are 18 and older also would get more transparency and control over ads they see, including “details and insight” on why they’re shown specific ads.

TikTok made similar changes, stopping users 13 to 17 from getting personalized ads “based on their activities on or off TikTok.”

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    1 year ago

    TikTok users can turn off systems that recommend videos based on what a user has previously viewed

    This is the coolest part of this, and I’m thinking this change is what prompted Google to show blank home screens if you opted out of watch history.

    We should always be able to control what media were presented with. I think YouTube recommendations and tiktok are two of the worst culprits of this.

    • eee@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      I’m thinking this change is what prompted Google to show blank home screens if you opted out of watch history

      Oh definitely. The fact that in the past Youtube was able to provide recommendations even if you had your watch history turned off, is a sign that turning off watch history didn’t do jack shit in the past.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I just assumed they established those recommendations by other means, such as your subscriptions (doesn’t involve watch history) or location (also doesn’t involve watch history), but I think you’re right. They could easily do what tiktok is planning for:

        If personalized recommendations are turned off, TikTok’s feeds will instead suggest videos to European users based on what’s popular in their area and around the world.

        That they turned it off completely strikes me as them throwing a hissy fit to get you to turn it back on, like they’ve done with other services in the past. Previously if you owned a Pixel phone, but turned off all tracking info in your phone settings, then simple tasks in virtual assistant would turn off, like weather updates, direction requests via maps, ect. They wouldn’t work and instead it would respond with “please turn on browser and app history in privacy settings”.

        I expect most people to acquiesce because they’ll think they “broke” something, but really Google has zero incentive to provide any service if they are unable to tailor ads and media to you from your usage data, because they can’t charge half of what they could otherwise to serve you ads.

    • Dept@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      news stock photos are weird. Reuters likes to 3d print logos and take pictures of them.

    • fry@fry.gsOPM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like it only affects services with 45 million or more members. Lemmy should be safe for a while :P

        • fry@fry.gsOPM
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          Agreed. Any rules or regulations for a federated network would likely need to be new legislation (if it’s really even needed at all).

          • nitefox@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            that’s how instagram, Facebook etc became a walled activityPub, where each group/feed is its own instance that the user can comfortably spawn!

  • wewbull@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    The DSA, which the biggest platforms must start following Friday, is designed to keep users safe online and stop the spread of harmful content that’s either illegal or violates a platform’s terms of service, such as promotion of genocide or anorexia.

    …because those two things are so close to each other.

  • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    32
    ·
    1 year ago

    Goddamnit ! I am a proud Republican who’s into tech. I wish I can be in Europe but also I dont want to leave America and live in a shitty 3rd world as an immigrant. Proud #MAGA

      • ripcord@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        Satire might be a nice way to put it, but he’s a troll account. Looking to set people off. Mostly his comments are just being shitty to people and trying to provoke.

      • ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        100% satire. Most core maga’s aren’t huge techies, you won’t see them around here, they’re too busy burning the capit0l