Former Google CEO Calls on Social Media to Verify Users and Engage in Other Forms of Social Media Censorship
Jose Nino
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently authored an opinion piece in which he put forward his “6-point” plan for fighting what he regards election “disinformation.”
Several of Schmidt’s ideas include blocking VPNs and verifying people behind every account on social media platforms, and he would like for US lawmakers, regulators, and Big Tech companies to carry out his recommendations “before it’s too late.”
Schmitt described 2024 as a year of “seismic” political shifts and “the biggest election year in history”. He als contended that democracies are “facing a historic test worldwide.”
Schmidt believes that “disinformation” is everywhere in presidential elections. He also believes that AI and social media could be potentially dangerous vectors for disinformation online.
The former Google CEO wants all social media users to be verified and authenticated as humans so that they can be “held accountable” by both the social media platforms and governing authorities.
Furthermore, Schmidt wants social media platforms to transform into “all-seeing eyes.” “Know every source. Knowing the provenance of the content and the time it entered the network can improve trust and safety (…) While VPN traffic may deter detection, platforms can step up efforts to improve identification of VPNs,” he wrote.
Schmidt alluded to the Biden regime’s AI executive order, to push for for “identifying deepfakes,” which he sees as a potential source of disinformation online.
The former Google CEO also wants to “filter advertisers” by disseminating a “safe list of advertisers across platforms,” and to depend more on humans to “help” expose misinformation.
“For all these approaches to work at scale, we’ll require long-term engagement, starting now. My philanthropic group is working to help create free, open-source testing frameworks for many AI trust and safety groups,” Schmidt concluded by calling for more research to fully address the disinformation problem.
Big Tech CEOs, present and past, are not our friends. They’re part of an oligarchical class that has become increasingly detached from the wants and needs of the American populace. These people will ultimately have to be rein, along with the political class, if we want
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