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EU Should Enlarge, Even Out of Despair – COMMENTARY
3 October 2024
5 May 2020
Many measures in content moderation are only partly applied to the smaller markets of Central and Eastern Europe, where COVID-19-related disinformation and manipulative content is happily travelling in the online information space.
If crises can claim any positive contribution to society, then the ability to speed-up processes that would have otherwise taken much longer is one of them.
As the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the daily lives and routines of many to online spaces, its governance has been largely impacted by swift decisions and enhanced cooperation on various levels. What had previously been treated with suspicion and reluctance was suddenly implemented at a surprisingly fast pace.
One of the examples of surprisingly quick actions to help tackle the crisis has come from social media platforms. For example, in their efforts to fight unverified claims, Twitter is adjusting the search results to make sure that users received credible and official information when searching for COVID-19.