political infighting within the Commission<\/a>. Despite strong concerns about foreign meddling in the EU, the topic is sensitive due to the U.S. administration\u2019s stance on anything related to misinformation, which it has frequently construed as disguised censorship.<\/p>\nMany of the proposals included in the draft strategy remain voluntary. <\/p>\n
That includes a plan for the Commission to work with EU countries on guidance on how to use AI in elections, in the wake of AI deepfakes rocking several election campaigns.<\/p>\n
In both the Netherlands and Ireland, AI-generated deepfakes of political candidates circulated on social media platforms in the final sprint of recent election campaigns, while data protection watchdogs warned voters should not rely on AI chatbots for voting advice.<\/p>\n
The new guidance should inform \u201cvoluntary commitments on the responsible use of new technologies\u201d for European and national political parties, the draft said.<\/p>\n
The Commission also plans to tackle the safety of politicians amid growing recognition of the personal dangers faced by those in the field. \u201cTo better ensure the safety of political candidates and elected representatives, the Commission will adopt a Recommendation on safety in politics,\u201d the draft read.<\/p>\n
It is also planning to assemble a network of influencers to \u201craise awareness about relevant EU rules\u201d \u2014 suggesting that using influencers could help people better understand EU rules such as on political advertising, online content and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But EU countries won’t be obliged to take part since their participation is \u201cvoluntary.\u201d The proposal, set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6511,31,13071,33,2000,299,5187,678,2452,7965,5549,182,3053],"class_list":{"0":"post-564695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-protection","9":"tag-democracy","10":"tag-disinformation","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-media","17":"tag-platforms","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-social-media","20":"tag-the-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115533997908287397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564695","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=564695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}