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Concessions from the EU on the DSA, which the White House was reportedly pushing for, did not materialize in the EU-U.S. trade deal. | Jim Lo Scalzo\/EPA<\/p>\nPOLITICO could not independently verify all the information in the Reuters report. Responding to a request for clarification from POLITICO, a State Department spokesperson said Monday: \u201cWe are monitoring increasing censorship in Europe with great concern but have no further information to provide at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reuters did not identify which EU or member country officials could find themselves in the firing line, and said no final decision on going ahead with the measures has been made.<\/p>\n
The Digital Services Act regulates online platforms, like social media and e-commerce, as well as search engines. Those with more than 45 million users in the EU, including Meta\u2019s Facebook and Instagram, TikTok and X, have to follow strict rules about assessing and mitigating important risks, like the spread of misinformation and harm to minors.<\/p>\n
Concessions from the EU on the DSA, which the White House was reportedly pushing for, did not materialize in the EU-U.S. trade deal. | Jim Lo Scalzo\/EPA<\/p>\n
But U.S. Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance<\/a>,\u00a0have said the law institutionalizes a censorship<\/a>\u00a0regime that stifles free speech. <\/p>\n The State Department has launched<\/a>\u00a0a campaign against the regulation. The spokesperson noted that in May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced visa restrictions<\/a> to bar \u201cforeign nationals who censor Americans\u201d from entering the country.<\/p>\n The European Commission is in charge of implementing the regulation on very large platforms, with national regulators taking responsibility for their respective countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLITICO could not independently verify all the information in the Reuters report. Responding to a request for clarification…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2437,2438,21469,6314,2000,299,5187,601,2820,2452,2845,7965,2443,2663,1199,182,1201,49,6863],"class_list":{"0":"post-373607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-companies","9":"tag-department","10":"tag-digital-services-act","11":"tag-e-commerce","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-jd-vance","16":"tag-marco-rubio","17":"tag-media","18":"tag-misinformation","19":"tag-platforms","20":"tag-regulation","21":"tag-sanctions","22":"tag-services","23":"tag-social-media","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-visas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}