The European Union will give technological societies and social media a “stress tests” to see how they manage the disinformation in view of Germany elections next month.
Officials of the European Commission have invited technological companies, including X, Meta, Snap, Tiktok, Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn, at a meeting on January 31st, according to multiple news. During this meeting, the officials of the European Commission will question these technological companies on how they would react to different scenarios that could interfere with the next elections, from the false generated by the AI to the disinformation campaigns, according to Bloomberg.
Techcrunch has contacted all the companies included for the comment and will update this piece if we hear.
This stress test will see if technological companies comply with the EU digital services act, which requires companies to dispose of safeguards and protocol to combat disinformation and illegal content on their platforms.
This test is in advance of the federal elections in Germany in February; The results could have great implications on the wider EU, since Germany is the largest member of the block.
The EU is probably taking a closer look at how technological companies are respecting the DSA now after the member of the Roman Block has canceled the results of the first round of its presidential elections last year after the Russian tests, Which they think may have been enhanced by Tiktok Algorithm and the documentation of 85,000 attempts at cyber attacks on electoral and it websites.
Elon Musk and X have already played a role in these next elections in Germany. Musk recently interviewed Alice Weidel, the leader of the AFD party of far -right German and a candidate for the imminent German elections, on X.
This news comes only one day after President Donald Trump has targeted the way in which EU regulators deal with US technological companies, including Google, Meta and Apple, two of which have been invited to this stress test.
While spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump said that the regulation of technological companies based in the United States by EU regulators was “a form of taxation”.
