The EU’s pilot examination of social networks found that X, the website formerly known as Twitter, had the highest percentage of misinformation.
EU concerned rate on X platform: Vera Jourova, vice president of the European Commission, stated that the investigation, which spanned three months in EU nations Spain, Poland, and Slovakia, revealed that X was significantly failing to meet EU code of practice on anti-disinformation requirements.
When the voluntary code of practice was introduce in 2018, Twitter, along with many other social media network operators, signed up for it.
But after Elon Musk took over and changed the business’s name to X, the corporation withdrew from the EU code.
The platform with the highest percentage of posts spreading false information is X, formerly known as Twitter and no longer covered by the regulation, according to Jourova.
She was speaking following the submission of the first comprehensive reports on code compliance by the 44 firms that are still signatories to the code of practise, including Facebook parent company Meta, YouTube owner Google, and Chinese-owned TikTok.
The Digital Services Act, new EU regulation that went into effect last month and threatens large fines of up to 6% of global revenue for corporations found in violation, is partially based on code even though compliance is voluntary.
The Digital Services Act is now fully implement, so Mr. Musk is aware that abandoning code of practice does not absolve him of responsibility, according to Jourova.
“I want Twitter to know that you must abide by the strict (DSA) law. We’ll be keeping eye on everything you do, she warned.
while awareness of Russian attempts to affect European public opinion while it conducts war in Ukraine has grown, the struggle by the European Union against disinformation has taken on more significance.
Before the EU elections that will take place in June of next year, Brussels wants online platforms to make every effort to reduce false and misleading content.
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Russian online strategies offer a risk that “is particularly serious,” according to the vice president of the commission.
“The Russian state has gotten involved in the war of ideas to contaminate our information space.”
She said that between January and April, Google shut down over 400 YouTube channels engaged in “influence operations” connected to the Russian government and deleted advertisements from 300 websites connected to Russian propaganda agencies.
She added that fact-checking TikTok shortform videos in the languages of Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarus resulted in 211 removals and that Microsoft’s Bing search engine devalued “questionable information” on countless numbers of queries about the conflict.
Prior to the European elections, she stated that work has begun on protections to stop major disinformation outflows using generative AI.
Jourova noted that she will shortly be meeting with representatives of OpenAI, the business that created ChatGPT.