The pushback comes as the emboldened leaders of US tech companies, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have been courting President-elect Donald Trump, with Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg urging him ...

Meta's Facebook, Elon Musk's X, Google's YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech ...

The European Union (EU) has updated its code of conduct on online hate speech, requiring social media platforms like Meta’s ...

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If the trend becomes entrenched, the Commission would need to reconsider its fact-checking demands, a source told Euractiv ...

Meta, X, TikTok, and YouTube have signed a pledge with the EU to do more to stop hate speech on their platforms. However, ...

The new Code of Conduct by the EU aims to improve how social media platforms deal with content that violates hate speech laws in the EU countries as well as other countries ...

Other signatories to the voluntary code set up in May 2016 are Dailymotion, Instagram, Jeuxvideo.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft ...

Google rejects EU's fact-checking requirements for search and YouTube, defying new disinformation rules. Google refuses to implement EU-mandated fact-checking on its platforms. Google claims its ...

Google has reportedly conveyed to the European Union (EU) that it will not add fact-checking features to search results and ...

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