Idea for legislation: The social media influencer transparency act.

[Amused]

Anyone on social media taking money to post must be 100% transparent about who is paying them and how much.

Thoughts?

 

[BoomerD]

Seems reasonable to me...

 

[HomerJS]

Overseas money was getting laundered. As long as we have anonymous shell corporations it will be hard to trace the money.

 

[BoomerD]

Overseas money was getting laundered. As long as we have anonymous shell corporations it will be hard to trace the money.

The same can be said about political  bribes campaign contributions. Citizens United is a travesty.

 

[HomerJS]

The same can be said about political  bribes campaign contributions. Citizens United is a travesty.

End Citizens United. Another for the filibuster list.

 

[biostud]

You can get some ideas here:

Influencers: obligations and responsibilities in Europe

What are the obligations and responsibilities of influencers promoting products on social networks?

www.europe-consommateurs.eu

 

[Amused]

You can get some ideas here:

Influencers: obligations and responsibilities in Europe

What are the obligations and responsibilities of influencers promoting products on social networks?

www.europe-consommateurs.eu

Yes, I notice most influencers who push a product disclose they're being paid. But what about being paid to post anything else?

Paid propaganda/information must be transparent too.

The EU is so far ahead of the US it isn't even funny. The days of the wild west internet must end. It has been weaponized and is breading extremism. That extremism is billionaire and foreign funded,

There is NO FUCKING WAY all these tens of thousands of "citizen journalists" are simply posting full time because of their good intentions nor are they making enough money from followers and/or ads to do it full time.

It is long past time we expose that funding.

I don't want to limit speech, but I DO believe we have a right to know who is being paid by whom to say what they're saying.

I have also noticed MLMs seem to be a front for political propaganda campaigns.

 

[mikeymikec]

Anyone on social media taking money to post must be 100% transparent about who is paying them and how much.

Thoughts?

I would add that the medium of transparency must be the same as the influencer's normal posts and appear among them with no attempt to deprioritize them relative to "normal content". Probably also with a link to a full account of their sponsorship dealings, available to all.

Otherwise influencers will easily find a way to do what newspapers do/did when they issue a retraction buried in the least popular part of the paper so as few of their readers see it as possible.

 

[darkswordsman17]

It won't change anything as they'll find ways around it, just like college athletes used to do, and similar. And tons of them are doing it even in spite of the laws that already exist (the Paul's have like 5 different grifts going, be it their Pokemon card scam, their crypto scams, and I forget what all else). Fuck, look at how many, from the shithead dumbfuck idiot mayor of New York, to dicklicking pieces of shit like the beanie wearing "alt-right" (aka wannabe Neo-Nazi) weirdo (Tee Pool? I don't remember that clown's name), being paid by Russia and Turkey, and that shit has been going on for years.

No wonder kids are watching a toilet, when all we're giving them is the trash we have now. Even Neil de Grasse Tyson has turned into a fucking dipshit (there's this bizarre YouTube channel that is tearing Rogan and all the clowns he has around him and several other of these right wing fucks, and they have a video of Tyson that I honestly don't know how real it is, but it was hilarious because its actually believable now).

Here's the NdGT video:

Some of the rest are worth a watch, like Seinfeld really has just become a total farce of a human being, but many I have no clue whoTF the video is about as I barely know the loserass hangers-on, so I'd skip those (I felt bad about the one Asian guy apparently is devastated because he got ostracized from that group of cretins, but maybe he's a piece of shit too). I was surprised that Whitney Cummings apparently is pretty in that scene, not sure if I should be surprised or not though as seems she's kinda become one of the dipshits that got suckered on "liberals are taking cancel culture too far!" Doesn't surprise me that fat full of shit jackass that made "The Machine" is one of them since he's a one note moron that has nothing worthwhile to offer the world other than making up stories about what a fat fucking drunk slob he is. I'm getting strong Lincoln Project vibes, so have a hunch its made by former fans that broke out of the cult mindset.