Safe elections: EU demands measures against deepfakes and fake news

Key measures required by the EU include

• Transparency in recommendation algorithms: Platforms must provide users with greater control over how content is recommended, ensuring diversity of information and protecting against algorithmic manipulation.
• Active misinformation moderation: Platforms must actively downgrade election misinformation, including deepfakes politicians, and manage the risks of misinformation based on artificial intelligence.
• Balance in political content moderation: Platforms must distinguish between legitimate political satire and malicious disinformation, protecting free speech and combating election manipulation.
• Cooperation with authorities and experts: Platforms must work together with regulatory authorities, external experts and fact-checkers to assess and mitigate electoral risks.
• Transparency and responsibility: Platforms must be transparent about how they address electoral risks, clearly labeling political ads and establishing incident response mechanisms.

The European Commission will test platforms' readiness to ensure compliance with the new guidelines ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections in June. Platforms that do not follow the guidelines can be fined up to 6% of their annual global revenue.

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These new measures represent an important step towards ensuring the security and integrity of elections in the digital age. A European Union is leading the way in fighting disinformation and protecting democracy, and hopes other regions of the world will follow its example.

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