Editorial, CNBC Indonesia
Tech
Saturday, 14/10/2023 20:45 WIB
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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Hamas conflict with Israel which broke out last week is still ongoing. This bloody incident has claimed more than 2,800 lives.
The divisions in the Middle East are of concern throughout the world. Unfortunately, much of the information circulating on the internet via social media is considered misleading and inaccurate.
For this reason, the European Commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, sent a warning to the bosses of social media giants. These include Elon Musk (Twitter/X), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), and Shou Zi Chew (TikTok).
Breton asked all platform providers to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA) regulations that apply in Europe. The rules require platforms with monthly active users exceeding 45 million to monitor and remove illegal content.
Platform providers are given 1 x 24 hours to remove inaccurate content that adds to the chaos of the critical situation between Hamas and Israel. Currently, only Facebook has announced that it has wiped out disinformation on its platform.
In his letter to Elon Musk, Breton warned that within the DSA rules “there are very detailed obligations regarding content moderation” and that X must be “very transparent and clear about what content is permitted and enforce those policies consistently and thoroughly.”
“I remind you, after investigation and findings of non-compliance, penalties will be issued,” said Breton, quoted by Reuters.
Meanwhile, in his letter to Shou, Breton stated that his party had found indications of TikTok being used to share illegal content and disinformation related to the Hamas vs Israel war.
TikTok, he stressed, must act “quickly, diligently and objectively” in removing fake news on its platform, especially since many young people use TikTok as a news source.
“First, because your platform is so widely used by children and teenagers, you have an obligation to protect them from violent content depicting kidnappings and other videos circulating on your platform, without appropriate safeguards,” Bretton said in his letter as quoted by CNBC International.
Finally, in a letter to Zuckerberg, Breton gave a similar ultimatum.
“I ask you to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA) regulations within the specified time. We will take firm action if there is still illegal content spreading in the EU,” Breton said to Zuckerberg in his official letter, quoted by Reuters.
If platform providers fail to clean up deviant content from their digital space within 1 x 24 hours after the letter is sent, the European Commission will not hesitate to impose a fine of 6% of their total revenue in the European region.
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