The main objective is to be able to determine whether the platforms comply with the rules required by the European Digital Services Law. The exam will be held on January 31st where they will be exposed to a stress test.
The European Commission will carry out a series of tests next week on the large platforms of social networksin order to check if they took sufficient actions to confront the disinformation just days away from german elections next month, an EU spokesperson announced on Friday.
Among the large platforms that will participate in the test, January 31they meet Microsoft, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google, Goal and xwhich will check whether they have sufficient safeguards to moderate the risks on their platforms.
“The resistance test consists of analyzing possible scenarios in which the DSA and check with the platforms how they would react in these specific scenarios,” announced the community spokesperson for Technological Sovereignty, Thomas Regnierin a press conference.
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He main objective of these evaluations, is to be able to determine if they comply with the rules required by the European Digital Services Law and detect possible attempts at manipulation, threats or electoral interference, in the next elections in Germany. February 23.
What will the evaluations and tests be like?
The exam will take place on Friday January 31 and will serve to “check with the platforms how they would react” to the different “possible scenarios.” The “Very Large Platforms” (VLOP), met with community services to engage in a back-and-forth discussion about the possible risks in electoral processes.
The technology giants will be exposed to a stress test which will expose them to a series of fictitious scenarios based on past experiences and situations. It is the first time that the EU develops this experience in national elections and the spokesperson explained that “it was a successful experience and that is why now together with the German authorities we have asked to do so”, where the meeting will be “behind closed doors”.
The current regulations DSA consider VLOP to platforms that have an online market of more than 45 million monthly users in the European Union, which exceeds the new community regulations which establishes designating a company as a “very large platform.”
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