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“X, who is not under the [voluntary EU disinformation] Code any more is the platform with the largest ratio of mis/disinformation posts.”
– said EU Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová, in charge of values and transparency, in a press statement on Tuesday (26 September).
Story of the week: It’s “not up to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg to decide” what kind of content an EU newspaper or a television station should publish online, said MEP Christel Schaldemose (S&D) at a European Parliament event on Tuesday. For the first time, EU institutions are to discuss the introduction of binding rules for protecting media freedom online, but the question of what level of oversight should be applied to online media while ensuring the upholding of…
