EU Commission wants more control over Social Media
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Following the concerted decision of many social media firms to ban President Trump, and take down the Parler social media platform, The European Commission has said there should be more oversight in how these decisions are made
It is “no longer acceptable” for social media giants to take key decisions on online content removals alone, following the high profile takedowns of US President Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter, the European Commission has said.
Speaking to lawmakers on Monday (11 January), Prabhat Agarwal, an official who heads up the eCommerce unit at the European Commission’s DG Connect, noted how the EU executive’s Digital Services Act attempts to realign the balance between effective content removal and preserving freedom of expression online.
“It is no longer acceptable in our view that platforms take some key decisions by themselves alone without any supervision, without any accountability, and without any sort of dialogue or transparency for the kind of decisions that they’re taking,” Agarwal said.
“Freedom of expression is really a key value in this,” he told the European Parliament’s internal market committee.
EU Commission wants more control over Social Media
EU Commission wants more control over Social Media
EU Commission wants more control over Social Media
Following the concerted decision of many social media firms to ban President Trump, and take down the Parler social media platform, The European Commission has said there should be more oversight in how these decisions are made