“I support the Twitter reaction to tweets of President Trump.”
The Twitter profile of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed on a tablet computer and smartphone in this arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
The intervention came as the EU urged web giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google to do more to tackle the “massive wave” of harmful online disinformation triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The site added links reading “get the facts” to the two Trump tweets, infuriating the social-media savvy president, who has more than 80 million followers.
Jourova was speaking at the launch of a major policy document outlining the EU’s approach to tackling disinformation about the pandemic. YouTube, which is owned by Google, has reviewed more than 100,000 videos related to misleading virus information and removed more than 15,000 of them,“They have to open up and offer more evidence that the measures they have taken are working well,” she told reporters.
False claims about how the virus originated and spread and how it can be treated have mushroomed as fast as COVID-19 has spread around the globe.Conspiracy theories have included claims that the virus was deliberately created to reduce population growth, or that its spread is somehow linked to 5G communications infrastructure.The EU report said a new approach was needed because of the wide range of dangerous or misleading material appearing online.
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