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1. Increased funding for the FTC to enforce laws around false advertising.
Influencers who peddle misinformation are funded by various supplement manufacturers whose supplements don't do anything. Many of the products they sell are bullshyt. They should be fined and it should be much easier to sue them, especially if they're making claims on air about products they sell(e.g. Alex Jones brain pills). This can also be extended to various scams advertised on social media. This will force them to spend money to fight bots on their platforms and boot grift off their platform.
2. Increased funding for public media.
If journalists who will practice investigative journalism can be guaranteed enough money to live well and advancement in their career. This takes pressure off them to turn to for-profit media who will kill any stories that are hostile to their advertisers.
3. A limit on how much foreign investment can go to any American platform which advertises itself as a platform that has non fictional content. The FTC can be empowered to enforce this.
4. Fines on platforms whose algorithms lead to users of their platforms getting recommended one type of content without being recommended an opposing view as well. Essentially a digital version of the fairness doctrine or equal time rule.
5. Enforcement of antitrust legislation. These companies are merging with each other and buying each other out to consolidate power which gives them outsized political influence. They need to be broken up and forced to compete with one another.
6. An increased corporate tax rate, and a clause that actually allows company leadership to have their income garnished. If corporations are people, then if they avoid corporate taxes, their income should be garnished like it would for you and me.
If this isn't done, it won't matter who is in the white house. We are at this point because the regulatory bodies (that exist for reasons they don't tell you in school) aren't being given the staff and funding they need to enforce the policies designed to protect companies from being destroyed by greed.
To create a compelling "story" and get views, mainstream media publications edit Donald Trump's rambling for him. Journalists have coined the term 'sanewashing' to describe it.
apnews.com
It also leads to media creating false equivalency to keep viewers watching so they can sell ads. Most media now online asks you to pay to access news, which means that shyt quality news is easier to find.
People like elon musk would not be able to go on bullshytting every year about self driving cars or going to Mars if he can, and is sued for misleading investors. And taking that shyt to his platforms to shill for his preferred candidate.
There are laws on the books to resolve these problems. They just need to be enforced and the money to enforce them can come from taxing these massive companies that avoid paying taxes. They have absurd profits every year and are not paying the tax rates they should be. "Who's going to pay for that" is a question that you can only ask if you assume that corporations are all struggling and none of them are worth literally trillions of dollars.
Influencers who peddle misinformation are funded by various supplement manufacturers whose supplements don't do anything. Many of the products they sell are bullshyt. They should be fined and it should be much easier to sue them, especially if they're making claims on air about products they sell(e.g. Alex Jones brain pills). This can also be extended to various scams advertised on social media. This will force them to spend money to fight bots on their platforms and boot grift off their platform.
2. Increased funding for public media.
If journalists who will practice investigative journalism can be guaranteed enough money to live well and advancement in their career. This takes pressure off them to turn to for-profit media who will kill any stories that are hostile to their advertisers.
3. A limit on how much foreign investment can go to any American platform which advertises itself as a platform that has non fictional content. The FTC can be empowered to enforce this.
4. Fines on platforms whose algorithms lead to users of their platforms getting recommended one type of content without being recommended an opposing view as well. Essentially a digital version of the fairness doctrine or equal time rule.
5. Enforcement of antitrust legislation. These companies are merging with each other and buying each other out to consolidate power which gives them outsized political influence. They need to be broken up and forced to compete with one another.
6. An increased corporate tax rate, and a clause that actually allows company leadership to have their income garnished. If corporations are people, then if they avoid corporate taxes, their income should be garnished like it would for you and me.
If this isn't done, it won't matter who is in the white house. We are at this point because the regulatory bodies (that exist for reasons they don't tell you in school) aren't being given the staff and funding they need to enforce the policies designed to protect companies from being destroyed by greed.
To create a compelling "story" and get views, mainstream media publications edit Donald Trump's rambling for him. Journalists have coined the term 'sanewashing' to describe it.
Sanewashing? The banality of crazy? A decade into the Trump era, media hasn't figured him out
Is the media “sanewashing” Donald Trump? Numbed by the “banality of crazy?” Should television networks show him more, or less? How do you fact-check him? Should you?
apnews.com
It also leads to media creating false equivalency to keep viewers watching so they can sell ads. Most media now online asks you to pay to access news, which means that shyt quality news is easier to find.
People like elon musk would not be able to go on bullshytting every year about self driving cars or going to Mars if he can, and is sued for misleading investors. And taking that shyt to his platforms to shill for his preferred candidate.
There are laws on the books to resolve these problems. They just need to be enforced and the money to enforce them can come from taxing these massive companies that avoid paying taxes. They have absurd profits every year and are not paying the tax rates they should be. "Who's going to pay for that" is a question that you can only ask if you assume that corporations are all struggling and none of them are worth literally trillions of dollars.
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