Avaaz, an activist organization that mobilizes campaigns on social issues, criticized the actions of social networks such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok in combating the spread of false news. According to the NGO, these big techs do not adopt tougher measures to prevent users from sharing fake news.
According to the non-governmental entity, these companies should issue a report in the next few weeks listing the changes adopted to comply with the recent digital legislation of the European Union and the Digital Services Law (DSA) that came into force from November last year.
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Reportedly, Avaaz performed a thorough analysis on a sample set of 108 pieces of content related to an American anti-vaccine film released in 2022. The study found that only 22% of lying posts were properly removed by platforms, while 78% remained online. -line.
This discovery reveals that the efforts adopted by Meta (formerly Facebook) are not enough to prevent malicious users from spreading false publications on the American giant’s social networks. “Overall, only 22% of the misinformation content we analyzed was labeled or removed by the top six platforms,” Avaaz said.
“Despite the platform’s explicit commitments in the code to improve its services in all EU languages, our research found that in certain EU languages - Italian, German, Hungarian, Danish, Spanish and Estonian – no platform took any action against the breach. of posts”, he completes.
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