Some large social media, including Facebook, have been singled out for lacking enough content moderation in less-spoken European languages like Slovak. X, which is already under formal investigation, has slashed its content moderation teams.
Under the DSA, major online companies have to meet wide-ranging requirements to crack down on illegal and harmful content, including with detailed assessments and mitigations of major societal risks — like threats to elections.
The guidelines are suggestions from the Commission on how to comply with the DSA rulebook. Companies are flexible in how they use them but those that do not follow the EU’s suggestions “must prove to the Commission that the measures undertaken are equally effective,” the EU executive said in a press release.
The Commission also said it is planning to carry out so-called stress tests or a “wargaming scenario” at the end of April with some major platforms. Companies like Meta, TikTok and X previously asked for such voluntary exercises overseen by the Commission’s enforcement team to check if their operations complied with the DSA.
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