Bundestag Election: Regulators X, Tikk, Meta & Co..

In Germany, anxiety about foreign influence and social networks is great before the Bundestag election. This is not only due to other reports on Russian promotional campaigns such as Dopelgangger operation, but also in conformity with US President Donald Trump due to Facebook and Instagram due to new moderation courses in meta and its platforms. So the federal network agency invited large operators on a goal table in Berlin with the European Union Commission on Friday. In the conversation, the hosts, according to their own statements, stressed the responsibility of very large online platforms and search engines in the run -up and find the same obligations in run -ups according to elections and Digital Services Act (DSA) “.

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Regulatory Authority acts as one Digital services coordinatorIt is responsible for the national enforcement of DSA. According to the platform law, analyzing services with more than 45 million active European users, evaluating and, if necessary, should reduce systemic online risks related to the integrity of elections. The purpose of the conversation was to discuss the possible violations of the DSA that could be in relation to the Bundestag election in February 2025, as well as to discuss the risk -related measures between all the actors involved. Google (YouTube), LinkedIn and original companies were also representative of Microsoft, Meta, Snapchat, Tiktok and X as well as national authorities and civil society organizations (NGOs).

After the rounds of the Federal Network Agency, the chairman of the Federal Network Agency, DSC Provisional Director Klaus Muller said, “We take very large online platforms on the word that they want and will be committed to implement the specifications of the Digital Services Act.” , “We work closely with the European Union Commission and inspect the development in the run-up along with other national authorities-very accurately.” Any violation of DSA will be passed for Executive Examples responsible in Brussels. This is the case, for example, if “illegal materials have not been removed or accounts are wrongly blocked”.

European Union Commission has published guidelines

Last year, the European Union Commission published recommendations for measures that are to carry service providers under the DSA to reduce systemic online risks for the reliability of elections and reliability. According to the guidelines, operators should also maintain fundamental rights – including the right to freedom of expression. One aspect refers to dangers in relation to artificial intelligence (AI) as a chat. Accordingly, the affected platforms should clearly identify “artificial or manipulative images, audio or video content, existing individuals, objects, places, or events” or marking them in a striking manner.

During the ongoing choice, operators are encouraged to provide users to “reliable, current and understandable information from official sources about voting and voting process”. Its purpose is to help political actors to reduce the potential damage caused by serious problems such as manipulated images, voices, or deepfec. “Efforts should be made to use disintegration and information manipulation to suppress voters”.

In the United States, the course under Trump goes in the opposite direction. Meta also did the same as Elon Musk and her service X and examined the fact at the door. In Europe, however, they should be used for time. Trump himself compared the fight against disintegration with censorship, Meta Boss Mark Zuckerberg jumped into the train. But this week, for example, led to the discovery of the hashtag #Democrats on Instagram, apparently no result.

“Tension test” with operators for federal election

In the end of April, the European Union Commission at that time conducted a “tension test” with very large platform operators to feel the upcoming European elections at that time. A recurrence should now focus on the Bundestag election. A spokesman of the Commission said on Friday that Microsoft, Tiktok, LinkedIn, Google, SNAP, META and X were asked to take this exam in this examination on 31 January. As part of this campaign, the potential landscape with German authorities will have to go through “in which DSA comes into the game”. The attention is on how the operators responded to these specific scenarios. Tikokok According to Reuters, assured first serviceWant to participate in the test.

On Wednesday, the federal minister of the Internal Nancy Faper (SPD) had already met with large social media platforms and digital corporations, responsible federal departments and security officers as well as NGOs. The federal election manager Ruth brand also participated in the conversation. Here meditation was on measures against targeted disintegration operations and hatred crimes such as killing political advertisements and measures against deepfack labeling.

Faeser: X & Co. Should follow law and law

“Lies and propaganda are tools that mainly use Russia to attack our democracy”, Later reported“Protecting candidates from criminal offenses on the net and even threatening to murder” was also important. Such statements can lead to real violence. The minister insisted: “When people are threatened, democratic debate is no longer possible.”

According to FAESER, it was important to remind the operators to remind the “law and law that was democratically decided in Europe”. Apart from DSA, they are relevant to ordinance and political advertising to remove terrorists online materials. Social Democrat said that criminal content examination should be “extended and should not be banned.” “More transparency about algorithms is also necessary, so that it is particularly fueling non -exclusive radical processes”.

(Nen)