
Meta and X promise Brussels a tougher hand against hate speech
Just a few days ago Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, called the regulations that digital platforms within the European Union (EU) must comply with as “institutionalized censorship.” However, the head of Meta seems to have swallowed his words (which logically went down a storm in Brussels) and now the company he leads and also X have committed to working more closely with the European Commission to curb hate speech in their domains (and, therefore, voluntarily obey the laws in force in community territory).
Henna Virkkunenexecutive vice president of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, celebrated this Monday that Meta and. The commitment made by Meta and X goes beyond mandatory compliance with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), Virkkunen emphasized. “There is no place for hate in Europe, whether offline or online,” said the vice president of the European Commission.
According to the community Executive, A total of twelve digital platforms have voluntarily signed the agreement against hate speech on the internetincluding X, Meta, YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn.
Among other things, the platforms that have joined the agreement undertake to review at least two-thirds of hate messages within 24 hours detected on their respective channels by recognized organizations and to delete such messages if they break the law.
Zuckerberg recently called EU regulations “institutionalized censorship”
The European Commission will monitor the implementation of the agreement. And although the commitments acquired by the platforms that have adhered to this agreement will continue to be voluntary in nature, their observance (or non-compliance) will in any case be taken into account by Brussels in the investigations currently underway against X, Meta, TikTok and others. platforms for alleged DSA violations.
Under the DSA, large digital platforms must take action against hate speech and misinformation on their domains. Zuckerberg recently described the provisions set forth by the DSA as “institutionalized censorship” and hoped that Donald Trump would exert greater pressure on his EU allies on this particular issue.
It also happens that approximately two weeks ago Meta decided to make its content moderation policies more lax in the United States, where Mark Zuckerberg’s company will renounce third-party data verification. and will rely instead on community notes. According to Meta’s new content moderation policies, with which Zuckerberg wants to once again put freedom of expression at the forefront, users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the United States will be able to refer, for example, to homosexual people as “mentally ill” or talking about women as “household objects.”
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