European Commission (EC) He noted on Tuesday that Xbefore Twitter, as a social network in which most disinformation and called on online platforms to adapt their strategies to combat disinformation to reality war in Ukraine and the possibility of interference in elections European Parliament 2024.

The data is compiled in a report from the pilot program, published alongside new reports on the implementation on major platforms of the European Code of Practice for Combating Disinformation, a series of voluntary commitments to combat disinformation that they have adhered to. TikTok, YouTube, Google or Facebook and from which X distanced himself last May.

Although Elon Musk removed X from the list of code signatories, disinformation activity on this platform is included in this pilot program in y Slovakia, as the network formerly known as Twitter was part of the code when the pilot began.

“X is the platform with the highest proportion of disinformation content,” the European Commission Vice-President for Values ​​and Transparency summed up at a press conference. Vera Yurova.

The Czech Commissioner emphasized that actors and organizations spreading disinformation tend to have a much larger following than platforms check who counter their content and tend to be newer users of these platforms than those who are not engaged in spreading this type of misinformation.

In the three countries selected for the pilot study, the number of users is between 8 and 9%.

Yurova insisted that despite his deviation from the code, Digital Services Actwhich is mandatory for all companies operating in the EU and whose compliance is already monitored by the European Commission.

“I was not happy when Twitter abandoned the code because up to that point we had good cooperation with them and their experts. “Now we have a comparison, and this can serve as proof that the code is working and that its signatories are making significant changes,” Jourova said.

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Google, for example, says it managed to prevent €31 million in advertising revenue from falling into the hands of misinformers in the EU, and rejected 141,823 political ads because it could not verify the identity of the person funding them.

On Facebook, 95% of users who encounter content confirmed as misinformation decide not to share it, and 37% undo sharing it when notified that they are about to spread misinformation, while on TikTok this figure drops to 29.9 %.

On the other hand, the Chinese video platform said it removed 140,635 videos that violated its disinformation policies and which collectively received more than 1 billion views; Also Microsoft prevented or restricted the creation of more than 6.7 million accounts LinkedIn LIE.

In parallel, the European Commission today presented a database regarding the Digital Services Act, which aims to ensure that internet platforms or search engines moderate content in order to protect citizens and democracy.

From this registry, users will be able to view statistics, search for specific explanations for why harmful or illegal content was removed, and download data, with the Commission adding new analysis and visualization features in the coming months.

(EFE)