EU Renews Calls to Facebook, Twitter to Fight Fake News
- European Commission makes further demands on ads, bots, fakes
- Platforms pledge more efforts ahead of EU elections in May
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European Union regulators have once again demanded Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google do more to fight disinformation on the internet and help regulators check the effectiveness of the actions taken.
The European Commission requires “more systematic information” from platforms to check the placement of advertisements and “to better understand the effectiveness of the actions taken against bots and fake accounts,” it said in a statement on Wednesday.