As it was anticipated in the morning of today, the European Commission has opened an investigation into the officer to Metës in order to verify the violation and the potential for the Utility of Digital (DMA). The company's Menlo Park, 't take effective measures to combat the dezinformimin, and the publication of the ad fraud on Facebook and Instagram. The closing of the announced of this tool CrowdTangle, is also under consideration.
The charge of the heavy Meta
The Meta is a company that has received the greatest number of requests for information under the SEA (the sixth of October 2023 to march 2024), the first of which is about the spread of the news to be false, about the war between Israel and Hamas. According to the European Commission, the company's Menlo Park, has broken the 13 articles of the law. The charges are very serious.
The first has to do with the mospërmbushjen of the obligation to fight dezinformimin, advertising fraud, and the behavior of the coordinate joautentike (the manipulation of public opinion). Due to the lack of moderation on the reasonable content of such may constitute a risk to the hearing of the citizens electoral process and basic human rights.
The commission doubts that the policy's content policy is not in line with the SEA. In practice, however, the method used to be punishable to the content through the algoritmit of the recommendations, there is a lot more transparent. Will they discover the case of shadowbanning, thus limiting the visibility of the companies that publish a large number of mailing by the parties.
Another attack on the Shortcomings of it has to do with the content of the law. The report is not readily accessible to the user. Moreover, the company has not implemented an effective system for the management of complaints against the actions of a moderate.
Finally, due to the lack of a tool that allows you to monitor the content in real-time, is still under consideration. Instead of having to provide for journalists, researchers and civil society, an instrument of the most comprehensive at the time of the elections of the future-a european Spot announced the closure of the CrowdTangle, no issue the first of a vehicle, etc.
This is a violation of the latter is the most serious, since it prevents the disclosure of the news to be false, and all other content that may be involved in the process. Therefore, the Commission is given Metës for 5 days to provide the required resources and legal.
During the investigation, it shall meet the proof of the other. There is no deadline. If there is a violation of the DSA, Meta risks a fine of up to 6% of its income annually to the global. A spokesperson for the company said:
We are in the process of well-placed to identify and mitigate the risks to them of our own. We will continue our cooperation with the European Commission, and I will give more details about it.
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