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Disinformation: Baerbock calls for tougher stance from new EU Commission

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Published: October 1st, 2024,
Last updated: October 1st, 2024

„If we don’t regulate this, just as we have regulation in normal life, then we will be helplessly at the mercy of this fake news,“ said Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

Annalena Baerbock has called on the new EU Commission to take stronger action against disinformation on social networks. „If you have algorithms that deliberately spread not only fake news, but also hatred and agitation, (…) then that is a disruption of our democratic reality,“ said the Federal Foreign Minister at a Green Party conference in Berlin on Monday. As an example, she cited recruitment videos of Islamist terrorists, which young people see in their feeds as soon as they click on such a video.

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