How should tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo, Line, etc, deal with requests to delete defamatory and abusive messages and fake news posted online?

Attacks against minors should be removed, warning provided and accounts banned after 3 abuses.

Leave it up if it is true and about an adult.

Take it down if it is false and about anything.

If falseness cannot be objectively proven, but it strongly believed by reputable fact checking organizations, drastically limit who can see the post AND add a disclaimer to the post stating that it cannot be be proven as true and may be false.

Don't allow any govt organization to level complaints about true/false posts. The CCP has been complaining about posts and videos from people actually telling and showing video from inside mainland China where they did things that all Chinese know about, but the CCP govt doesn't want the world to see. This causes those videos to be taken down, though they are 100% true. This cannot be allowed, especially since the video platforms aren't doing business inside China and are blocked there.

The same needs to apply to all countries.

The more views any post has, the higher the effort by the company needs to be. Don't worry about 50 people seeing any posts, but triage posts with over 50K views ASAP.

Allow users to select what level of 'truthfulness' the posts they'd like to see must achieve.

Most weather reports would be labeled as true, automatically. Weather reports by a certain ex-Prez would be labeled as false and removed.

I second theFu's statements, especially on not allowing government entities to complain about posts. If I could add anything, these platforms should have a special provision for people who use blackmail against others, this includes abusive superiors at work coercing one to respond outside working hours.

Either they editorialise and take the consequences of getting it wrong or they just let everyone post whatever opinions they want short of illegal material.

The question is the answer. lol By deleting defamatory and abusive messages and fake news posted online.

How should tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo, Line, etc, deal with requests to delete defamatory and abusive messages and fake news posted online?

They should delete it all. Anyone who doesn't like it can go post on their Truth Social buggy echo chamber. Keep them quarantined from the rest of humanity.

They should continue to do what they do and enjoy it while they can. 1/3 of Americans want the companies broken up and I see that happening, so while these progressive social media platforms silence free speech, the midterms is about the change all that for them, so good things to come later this year and the next. Free speech belongs to all people and not to just the left.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1064970545/facebook-instagram-twitter-2022-challenges-social-media

Social media is one of the bigger problems for cyber bullying and the fact people have lost most of their social skills, can’t sleep properly and often commit suicide. Does anyone want to look at your food pictures, really?

How about introducing a system which automatically removes words offensive to people at first and foremost. Since such words are normally needed in everyday conversation to make a good relationship. Regardless of a freedom of expression, that will work to help interpersonal communication smooth.

Ban social media altogether!