Fact-checking is more important than ever.
In a world shaped by AI-generated content, deepfakes, and increasingly sophisticated misleading narratives, it’s becoming harder to tell what’s real and what’s not.
That’s why we’re acting - with stronger rules and tools to tackle disinformation:
🔹The Digital Services Act
🔹The Code of Conduct on disinformation
🔹EUvsDisinfo
🔹European Digital Media Observatory
Spotting and stopping it is a shared responsibility.
Before sharing content online, consider:
✔️ Check the source
✔️ Be cautious of strong emotional content
✔️ Verify images authenticity
✔️ Use fact-checking sites
✔️ Stop the spread of disinformation
Research shows it clearly: a tiny fraction of supersharers—many from coordinated troll farms—are responsible for spreading the vast majority of misinformation. Yet institutions keep blaming everyday people for the problem.
https://www.science.org/content/article/tiny-number-supersharers-spread-vast-majority-fake-news
Stop shifting responsibility onto victims!
We won't solve misinformation by policing individual shares when the real sources operate at scale.
We won't reduce pollution by asking families to recycle while corporations emit freely.
We won't address climate change through personal choices when billionaires fly private jets and yachts.
The pattern is the same: systemic problems require systemic solutions. Targeting individuals while ignoring the infrastructure of disinformation is both ineffective and unfair.
The EU Commission's post misses the mark entirely.
This page provides an overview of the designated Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) supervised by the Commission and the main enforcement activities.
@EUCommission @RaffKarva We clearly need to invest more in European AI datacenters, otherwise we are really going to miss out on the GenAI boom...
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European Commission
Raff Karva
Angela Scholder