Until next week, the European Commission will publish guidelines that should be followed to ensure the integrity of the election. Meta, X, TikTok, and other companies are going to need to take the necessary measures to prevent the spread of the news to be fake to them and their recommendations. In the event of infringement, may be imposed a fine of up to 6% of the turnover of the annual, global, and as required by Law, the Services and the Digital (the SEA).
The rules and the penalties for the Big Tech
Google, Microsoft, Meta, and TikTok have also been notified already preventative measures to block the dezinformatat, in particular the use of the so-called “deepfakes” to manipulate public opinion. In the middle of February, they signed an agreement, along with 16 other companies, and these are the commitments of the non-binding.
The guidelines of the European Commission, as a part of The Services in the Digital, it would represent a sort of “list of control”. The online platforms you can apply them as you wish, but the ultimate goal is to mitigate the risk by taking effective measures to counter the activities that may have an impact on the election.
In particular, companies will need to remove the content as soon as possible to avoid the initiation of the investigation and the penalties of the form. A spokesperson for the European Commission, said:
The platforms of social media have to demonstrate, compliance, or to explain why what they are doing to mitigate the risks. If you don't think we'll set up a fine.
The rules must be followed also by the search engines and YouTube. Google had listed a number of measures for its services. Today, it announced that, as well as to fight the spread of the news to be false, with the cooperation of the organizations with which to examine the evidence.
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