The recently passed Digital Services Act (DSA) requires major online platforms, including Meta’s X and Facebook, to do more to remove illegal content and take action to address risks to public safety and civil dialogue.

X has reallocated resources and refocused internal teams to cope with the rapidly evolving situation, Yaccarino said, without specifying what changes. He added that the company assembled a leadership team to assess the situation shortly after the attack.

“We would like to reiterate that we would welcome further contact with you and your team, including a meeting, to address any specific questions and look forward to receiving more specific data that we can respond to,” Yaccarino said in the email . Breton, published on X.

The social network responded to more than The EU received 80 content removal requests within the prescribed period and did not receive any notifications from Europol about illegal content on the platform, the letter said.

Breton did similar warning from Mete on Wednesdaygiving the company 24 hours to inform it of measures taken to counter the spread of disinformation on its platforms following the attack on Israel.

EC analyzes response X

The European Commission confirmed on Thursday that it has already received and is analyzing the clarifications it requested from the social network. remove terrorist content which, according to Brussels, has been circulating on the platform since the Hamas attack on Israel.

This was confirmed today by the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, in a message on his official X account, the same one in which on Tuesday he published a letter that he himself sent to the owner of the company, Elon Musk. warning him of the existence “content of violence and terrorism” and demand its removal.

In this letter, Breton also stated that X was being subjected to false information with images not related to the new war between Israel and Hamas or that came from video games.

We received a response from @X to our letter expressing concern about the spread of illegal content and disinformation related to the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

#DSA The law enforcement team will review the response and decide on next steps.

— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) October 12, 2023

Brussels is now analyzing X’s response before deciding to launch an investigation that could ultimately result in a fine for the company of up to 6% annual turnover worldwide.

This is set out in the Digital Services Act, which obliges platforms to quickly remove illegal content online.

If the Commission decides to open an investigation against X and does not voluntarily remove illegal content, Brussels may apply precautionary measures against the company, a representative of the community executive explained.