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companies are due to present reports this week on the measures
they have taken to comply with the updated EU code of practice
on disinformation which is linked to the online content rules
known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) that came into force
last November.
Avaaz said it analysed a sample pool of 108 fact-checked pieces
of content related to a 2022 American anti-vaccine film and
found efforts by the social media platforms including Meta's
Instagram to remove disinformation fell short.
"Overall, just 22% of disinformation content we analysed was
either labelled or removed by the six major platforms," Avaaz
said.
It said the companies did not do enough to tackle disinformation
in languages other than English.
"Despite explicit platform commitments in the code to improve
their services in all EU languages, our research found that in
certain EU languages - Italian, German, Hungarian, Danish,
Spanish and Estonian - no platform took any action against
violating posts," Avaaz said.
"This study suggests that most of the major platforms are
failing to comply with their Code of Practice commitments and
might infringe upcoming DSA obligations," the group said.
Meta, Alphabet, Twitter and Microsoft last year vowed to take a
tougher line against disinformation after committing to the
updated EU code.
Companies face fines up to 6% of their global turnover for DSA
violations.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee)
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