{"id":11701,"date":"2023-09-28T08:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T06:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/the-eu-may-have-some-success-getting-tech-firms-to-tackle-fake-news-but-good-luck-with-elon-musk-chris-stokel-walker\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T08:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T06:38:33","slug":"the-eu-may-have-some-success-getting-tech-firms-to-tackle-fake-news-but-good-luck-with-elon-musk-chris-stokel-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/the-eu-may-have-some-success-getting-tech-firms-to-tackle-fake-news-but-good-luck-with-elon-musk-chris-stokel-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU may have some success getting tech firms to tackle fake news \u2013 but good luck with Elon Musk | Chris Stokel-Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU report cards are in, and they must address the fact that one platform is falling far behind others in dealing with misinformation<\/p>\n<p>Results days for A-levels and GCSEs see pupils across the UK waiting with no small measure of anxiety for their grades. Big tech CEOs are having a similar experience this week, as the European Union announces the results of <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/news\/code-practice-disinformation-new-reports-available-transparency-centre\">reports submitted<\/a> by tech firms on the scale of fake news across social media. The reports were the first since the Digital Services Act gave the EU sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/25\/how-the-eu-digital-services-act-affects-facebook-google-and-others\">new powers to fine<\/a> and otherwise punish those who perform poorly.<\/p>\n<p>The report cards were welcome reading for most companies, who have done decently in tackling the scourge of disinformation. But for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter<\/a>, now known as X, the message was clear: \u201cCould do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/sep\/28\/eu-fake-news-elon-musk-x-twitter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7eb52f7b5c8e65ab5f1dd1cdae7836b29191dbe2\/0_166_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=44b9b5837613328c0fc825e569825372\" title=\"The EU may have some success getting tech firms to tackle fake news \u2013 but good luck with Elon Musk | Chris Stokel-Walker\" \/>The EU report cards are in, and they must address the fact that one platform is falling far behind others in dealing with misinformation<br \/>\nResults days for A-levels and GCSEs see pupils across the UK waiting with no small measure of anxiety for their grades. Big tech CEOs are having a similar experience this week, as the European Union announces the results of reports submitted by tech firms on the scale of fake news across social media. The reports were the first since the Digital Services Act gave the EU sweeping new powers to fine and otherwise punish those who perform poorly.<br \/>\nThe report cards were welcome reading for most companies, who have done decently in tackling the scourge of disinformation. But for Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter, now known as X, the message was clear: \u201cCould do better.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU report cards are in, and they must address the fact that one platform is falling far behind others in dealing with misinformation Results days for A-levels and GCSEs see pupils across the UK waiting with no small measure of anxiety for their grades. Big tech CEOs are having a similar experience this week, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/the-eu-may-have-some-success-getting-tech-firms-to-tackle-fake-news-but-good-luck-with-elon-musk-chris-stokel-walker\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The EU may have some success getting tech firms to tackle fake news \u2013 but good luck with Elon Musk | Chris Stokel-Walker<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}