The apps must enhance their monitoring and strengthen their collaboration with fact-checkers, writes European commissioner for Digital Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen on X. The situation will be discussed further on Monday, it is announced.
Meta announced last year that it would cease independent fact-checking on its platforms in the United States. This decision was met with significant criticism at the time, as it could allow misinformation to spread freely.
The migration crisis in Ceuta was also reportedly exacerbated by misinformation on social media. One of the rumours that emerged was that the Spanish Supreme Court had decided that people entering Spanish territory by sea could not be immediately returned via so-called ‘pushbacks.’ However, the ruling did not mean that those individuals could never be deported under any circumstances.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez later stated that, among others, human traffickers had eagerly shared misinterpretations of the judicial decision, thereby fuelling the crisis.
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