EU warns Elon Musk over Hamas attack posts on X, threatens potential banEuropean Union (EU) has issued a warning to Elon Musk for spreading disinformation on his social media platform. Musk's platform, previousl...
11 Oct, 2023, 03.27 PM IST
Elon Musk's X is the biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official saysAhead of upcoming elections, Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta also have more to do to tackle disinformation, much of it coming from Russi...
26 Sep, 2023, 07.44 PM IST
Resist Russian disinformation as elections loom, EU tells Big TechConcerns have mounted in recent months about a spate of disinformation related to parliamentary elections in Slovakia on Sept. 30 and Polan...
26 Sep, 2023, 04.31 PM IST
Twitter faces 'stress test' of Europe's tough new Big Tech rulesThe EU law, along with new regulations in the pipeline for data and artificial intelligence, has made Brussels a trailblazer in the growing...
23 Jun, 2023, 10.58 AM IST
Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformationEU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the ability of a new generation of AI chatbots to create complex content and visuals in seco...
06 Jun, 2023, 11.44 AM IST
AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Vera Jourova saysCompanies such as Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms that have signed up to the EU Code of Practice to tackle disinformation should repor...
05 Jun, 2023, 07.14 PM IST
Twitter quits EU disinformation code: EU industry commissioner Thierry BretonLaunched in 2018, the EU's code of practice on disinformation counts nearly three dozen signatories including the giants in the sector such...
27 May, 2023, 04.42 PM IST
Twitter cannot hide from EU rules after exit from code, EU's Breton saysCompanies which signed up to the code are required to provide regular progress reports with data on how much advertising revenue they had a...
27 May, 2023, 10.20 AM IST
Twitter likely to quit EU code against disinformation, EU official saysThe European Commission beefed up the code last year, requiring companies to submit regular progress reports with data on how much advertis...
26 May, 2023, 12.48 AM IST
Europol sounds alarm about criminal use of ChatGPT, sees grim outlookWith its ability to reproduce language patterns to impersonate the style of speech of specific individuals or groups, the chatbot could be ...
27 Mar, 2023, 08.02 PM IST
TikTok promises to ramp up fight against disinformation in EUPresenting its progress report on what it did to live up to a beefed-up EU code of practice on disinformation in the past six months, TikTo...
09 Feb, 2023, 05.29 PM IST
Twitter draws EU ire for sending incomplete disinformation reportTwitter’s report was short of data and didn’t include commitments from the social media company that it would empower fact-checkers, the EU...
09 Feb, 2023, 02.15 PM IST
Big Tech not doing enough to remove fake news, says activist NGO AvaazThe companies are due to present reports this week on the measures they have taken to comply with the updated EU code of practice on disinf...
07 Feb, 2023, 11.26 AM IST
Meta, Google, Twitter pledge to better fight fake news or risk finesMore than 30 signatories including advertising bodies have signed up for the updated Code of Practice on disinformation, the European Commi...
16 Jun, 2022, 04.54 PM IST
Google, Facebook, Twitter to tackle deepfakes or risk EU finesThe European Commission is expected to publish the updated code of practice on disinformation on Thursday as part of its crackdown against ...
14 Jun, 2022, 08.21 AM IST
Facebook, Twitter, Google to report monthly on fake news fight, EU saysFacebook, Google and Twitter should provide monthly reports on their fight against disinformation, two senior EU officials said on Wednesda...
10 Jun, 2020, 11.56 PM IST
China, Russia are spreading coronavirus misinformation: EUChina and Russia were blamed for spewing out false and misleading online information about Covid-19 in a European Union report that seeks t...
10 Jun, 2020, 11.38 PM IST