TECH - 'Mr. Musk Knows That He Is Not Off The Hook': EU Official Slams X For Spread Of Russia-Ukraine Misinformation | Benzinga
A vice president of the European Commission is sending out an alert regarding the spread of misinformation on social media, as big elections draw closer.
Vera Jourova, who heads the Values and Transparency commission of the EU, warned of the risk of fake news and propaganda from pro-Russia actors on social media and denounced X, formerly Twitter, as "the platform with the largest ratio of mis/disinformation posts" of all the big tech platforms.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Jourova placed a special emphasis on the responsibility of big tech companies to stop Russia's "multi-million euro weapon of mass manipulation."
"The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half-truth and lies to create a false image that democracy is no better than autocracy," she said.
Currently, 44 companies have voluntarily signed to use the Code of Practice on Disinformation presented last year. These include Facebook, owned by Meta (NASDAQ:META), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiaries Google and YouTube, Bytedance's TikTok and LinkedIn.
X quit its voluntary participation ...