The European Union will provide high -tech and social media companies a “stress test” to check how to treat misinformation before next month’s election.
According to multiple news outlets, the European Commission officials invited high -tech companies, including X, Meta, Snap, Tiktok, Google, Microsoft, and Linkedin on January 31. According to Bloomberg, during this meeting, officials of the European Commission would be in various scenarios that these high -tech companies could interfere with future elections, from fake to fake information. Quiz to react to.
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This stress test confirms whether high -tech companies are compliant with the EU digital service law. As a result, companies need to introduce protection and protocols to fight incorrect information on the platform and illegal content.
This test is prior to the February German SNAP Federal Elections. Germany is the biggest member of the block, so the result can have a significant impact on a wider EU.
The EU examines in detail how high -tech companies are currently complies with DSA after Russia’s first round results of the first round of the presidential election last year after Russian interference. There is a possibility. Algorithms and 85,000 documents have tried cyber attacks on the election website and IT.
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The news comes one day after President Donald Trump aims to deal with US high -tech companies, including Google, Meta, and Apple.
While speaking at the Davos’s World Economic Forum, Trump stated that the regulations of high -tech companies based in the United States by the EU regulation authorities were “one form of taxation.”