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Meta’s approach to election security in the frame as EU probes FB, Instagram

The European Union announced Tuesday it suspects Meta's social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc' rules for larger The European Union announced Tuesday it suspects Meta's social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc' rules for larger platforms in relation to election integrity.

“When Meta get paid for displaying advertising it doesn’t appear that they have put in place effective mechanism of content moderation,” said a Commission official briefing journalists on background on the factors that led it to open the bundle of investigations. It’s not opened an investigation on this yet but has sent Meta an urgent formal request for information (RFI) about its decision to deprecate the research tool — giving the company five days to respond. In light of the variety of information requests on Meta platforms, the company could face additional DSA investigations as Commission enforcers work through multiple submissions.

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