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Meta, TikTok and X to join EU stress test for German election
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Posted on January 24, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on January 24, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
The EU will conduct a stress test with major social media platforms to counter disinformation ahead of the German election, ensuring compliance with the Digital Services Act.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will hold a stress test with large social media platforms next week to see whether they have done enough to counter disinformation in the run-up to next month's German election, an EU spokesperson said on Friday.
Microsoft, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google, Snap, Meta and X will participate in the test on Jan. 31, meant to see whether they have enough safeguards in place to mitigate risks on their platforms, as they are obliged to do under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
"The stress test is really going through potential scenarios where DSA comes into play and to check with platforms how they would react to these specific scenarios," spokesperson Thomas Regnier told a press briefing.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
The EU's stress test on social media platforms to counter disinformation before the German election.
A regulation that requires platforms to mitigate risks and counter disinformation.
Meta, TikTok, X, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, and Snap.
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