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Big tech companies not doing enough to weed out fake news, comply with EU online content rules: NGO Avaaz


Twitter, Google’s YouTube, Meta Platform’s Facebook, Microsoft’s LinkedIn and TikTok aren’t doing enough to remove fake news from their platforms, raising doubts about their ability to comply with new online content rules. of the EU, NGO activist Avaaz said on Tuesday.

The companies will present reports this week on the measures they have taken to comply with the EU’s updated code of practice on misinformation linked to so-called online content rules. The Digital Services Act (DSA) went into effect last November.

Avaaz said it analyzed a sample group of 108 fact-checked content related to a 2022 US anti-vaccination film and found that efforts by social media platforms include: including Meta’s Instagram to remove misinformation has failed.

Overall, only 22% of the disinformation content we analyzed was labeled or removed by the six major platforms, Avaaz said.

It said the companies were not doing enough to address misinformation in languages ​​other than English.

“While the platform is clearly committed in code to improve their services in all EU languages, our research shows that in several EU languages ​​- Italian, German, Hungarian , Danish, Spanish and Estonian – none of the platforms took any action on the offending posts,” Avaaz said.

“This study shows that most major platforms are not complying with their Code of Practice commitments and may be in breach of upcoming DSA obligations,” the group said.

meta, Alphabet, TwitterAnd Microsoft last year vowed to take a tougher line against misinformation after pledging to update EU code.

Companies face fines of up to 6% of their global revenue for violating the DSA.

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