Sep 26, 2023
Disinformation most active on X, formerly known as Twitter, EU says
X, formerly Twitter, has the biggest proportion of disinformation of six big social networks, a European Commission study has suggested. The disinformation study which prompted Ms Jourova's comments covered Spain, Poland and Slovakia, countries at risk of being targeted by disinformation due to elections or proximity to the war in Ukraine. The platform with the largest "Ratio of discoverability" of disinformation - meaning the proportion of sensitive content made up of disinformation - was Twitter. The study was carried out by TrustLab, a disinformation monitoring start-up, as part of work to support the EU's code of practice on disinformation. In September the EU accused social media companies of failing to stop "Large-scale" Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine.
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