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		</div><p>The European Union (EU) has ratcheted up its scrutiny of big tech companies – with demands for Meta and TikTok to detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas conflict.</p>
<p>The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive branch, formally requested that the social media companies provide information on how they are complying with sweeping new digital rules aimed at cleaning up online platforms.</p>
<p>The commission asked Meta and TikTok to explain the measures they have taken to reduce the risk of spreading and amplifying terrorist and violent content, hate speech and disinformation.</p>
<p>Under the EU’s new rules, which took effect in August, the biggest tech companies face extra obligations to stop a wide range of illegal content from flourishing on their platforms or face the threat of hefty fines.</p>
<p>The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), are being put to the test by the Israel-Hamas conflict.</p>
<p>Photographs and videos have flooded social media of the carnage alongside posts from users pushing false claims and misrepresenting videos from other events.</p>
<p>Brussels issued its first formal request under the DSA last week to Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.</p>
<p>European commissioner Thierry Breton, the bloc’s digital enforcer, had previously sent warning letters to the three platforms, as well as YouTube, highlighting the risks that the war poses.</p>
<p>“In our exchanges with the platforms, we have specifically asked them to prepare for the risk of live broadcasts of executions by Hamas — an imminent risk from which we must protect our citizens — and we are seeking assurances that the platforms are well prepared for such possibilities,” Mr Breton said in a speech on Wednesday.</p>
<p><figure id="attachment_180717" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-180717" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/8BB0E353-FAD5-41D4-8764-88C49F6729E1.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-180717" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-180717" class="wp-caption-text">Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Thursday Gaza war</figcaption></figure>€ </p>
<p>Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and video-sharing app TikTok did not respond immediately to email requests for comment.</p>
<p>The companies have until Wednesday to respond to questions related to their crisis response.</p>
<p>They also face a second deadline of November 8 for responses on protecting election integrity and, in TikTok’s case, child safety.</p>
<p>Depending on their responses, Brussels could decide to open formal proceedings against Meta or TikTok and impose fines for “incorrect, incomplete or misleading information”, the commission said._k </p>
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