Facebook Owner Meta Platform Inc., Twitter and other social-media platforms have agreed to follow tough EU standard For policing online postings, an upcoming digital-content law previews what kind of rules big tech companies will have to do.
The EU’s code of practice, unveiled on Thursday, replaces an earlier, voluntary set of guidelines for addressing online content that officials deem to be intentionally false or misleading. Officials said they want to make parts of the new code mandatory for major platforms under the new law, the Digital Services Act.