
The EU’s Disinformation War
The EU is using the Israel-Hamas conflict as a fig leaf for extending its control of the internet—but online censorship will not solve the problem of Islamism.
The EU is using the Israel-Hamas conflict as a fig leaf for extending its control of the internet—but online censorship will not solve the problem of Islamism.
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company tries to satisfy EU privacy law while maintaining its revenue.
The French study described pornography as a “system that massacres women for profit.”
EU legislation has already resulted in multiple right-wing and Russophile social media accounts being removed.
The stakes are high for Meta as a large part of its revenue is based on personalised advertising.
The EU has become fully reliant on Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, to get its satellites into orbit, while its regulators hope to bring the hammer down on Musk this month over hate speech regulation on Twitter.
In an interview on French television, the American magnate said he had more power now than if he were president, but Twitter would comply with the EU.
While abiding by the Code is voluntary, the same does not apply to the EU’s new content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act. Regarding the latter, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton warned: “You can run, but you can’t hide.”
Věra Jourová voiced alarm over the “unregulated” and “aggressive” Russian “propaganda” circulating on Elon Musk’s social media platform.
Larger platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are to ensure that mechanisms are in place which would prevent ‘disinformation’ and ‘deceptive content’ from going viral.