Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, spoke out in line with the social network’s previous audit by the European Commission ahead of new, more restrictive rules for digital platforms coming into effect in September.
The announcement was made this Sunday by European Commissioner Thierry Breton, in charge of the internal market and digital platforms in the European Union, as part of a public speech during which he also promised to reveal next week the names of the “so-called system platforms” that will be particularly affected. new European legislation that intends to eliminate areas without jurisdiction on the Internet.
According to Breton, “there are between 19 and 25” of these platforms, which bring together more than 45 million users on the European continent, according to the European Commissioner, adding that this number represents 10% of the population in the European Union and applauding the diploma, which “will fundamentally change attitude towards people on the Internet.
The platforms in question “will have to radically change how they operate very quickly if they want to continue operating in Europe,” Breton said.
“We are going to check what is happening with their algorithms (…), how many moderators they have, whether they speak well in each of the languages of the Union,” the European Commissioner listed.
Breton said he suggested that large platforms “before the month of September” when the law applies to them, to conduct “blank checks”, that is, preliminary checks without consequences in case of violation.
“Imagine Elon Musk agreed,” Breton added such a Twitter audition, saying that he intends to travel to California, in the US, to take part in this audit in person.
The European Commission is in the process of recruiting a team of 100 digital platform experts who will be responsible for conducting these audits, Breton said.
The Digital Platforms Act imposes a long list of rules on social media, commercial platforms and search engines.
These rules include an obligation to act immediately to remove all illegal content that becomes known to the platform, or an obligation to inform the judiciary when they suspect a serious criminal offence.
The rules also include prohibitions such as the use of sensitive user data (gender, political orientation, religion) for targeted advertising, as well as transparency obligations such as the publication of key parameters used by recommender systems.
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Source: CM Jornal
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