Article in Reuters by Foo Yun Chee, 1/20/25
Headline: “Facebook, X, YouTube to do more against online hate speech, EU says”
“Meta’s (META.O), Elon Musk’s X, Google’s (GOOGL.O), YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech under an updated code of conduct that will now be integrated into EU tech rules, the European Commission said on Monday.
“Other signatories to the voluntary code set up in May 2016 are Dailymotion, Instagram, Jeuxvideo.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft (MSFT.O), hosted consumer services, Snapchat, Rakuten Viber, TikTok and Twitch.
” ‘In Europe there is no place for illegal hate, either offline or online. I welcome the stakeholders’ commitment to a strengthened Code of conduct under the Digital Services Act (DSA),’ EU tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen said in a statement.”