The European Union wants social media platforms to submit monthly reports on how they're handling misinformation around the coronavirus pandemic.
and apply to companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter that have signed up to an existing EU code of conduct on disinformation.
"We have witnessed a wave of false and misleading information, hoaxes and conspiracy theories as well as targeted influence operations by foreign actors," Commission Vice President Josep Borrell said at a press conference."Some of these are aimed at harming the EU and its member states, trying to undermine our democracies, the credibility of the EU and of national authorities. What is more, this information in times of the coronavirus can kill.
The code of conduct and monthly reports are due to be incorporated into a broader set of binding regulations before the end of 2020. The Commission also called out Russia and China for their role in seeding and spreading misinformation about the virus around the world. Both countries have been recently named by officials in Europe and the United States as trying to muddy the waters around the coronavirus narrative through a combination of official state outlets and unofficial social media campaigns, with the aim of bolstering their image and tearing down the standing of their adversaries.
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