Washington Washington. Meta's Facebook, Elon Musk's X, Google's YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech under an updated code of conduct the European Commission said Monday. Other signatories to the voluntary code, established in May 2016, include Dailymotion, Instagram, JuxVideo.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft Hosted Consumer Services, Snapchat, Rakuten includes Viber, TikTok, and Twitch.
“There is no place for illegal hatred in Europe, whether offline or online,” EU Technical Commissioner Hanna Virkkunen said in a statement. “I encourage stakeholders to commit to a stronger code of conduct under the Digital Services Act (DSA).” “The DSA requires tech companies to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content on their platforms. EU officials said compliance with the updated code could impact regulators' enforcement of the act.
Under the revised code, the companies have pledged to allow nonprofits or public entities with expertise on illegal hate speech, to oversee how they review hate speech notices, and to provide 24-hour Assess at least two-thirds of these notices received from them within the U.S. Companies will also take measures such as using automated detection tools to reduce hate speech on their platforms, and the role of recommendation systems before removing it and of illegal content Will provide information about organic and algorithmic reach. They will present country-level data broken down by internal classification of hate speech such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.
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