Google and other major platforms such as TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram all had to update various aspects of their service policies including more transparency on how content is recommended and moderated.
Google plans to update some of its service policies in order to comply with the European Digital Services Act according to a blogThe BigTech giant says it has made “significant investments” in various areas in order to comply with the European Union’s DSA’s specific requirements.
It plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center, expand reachers’ access to data, expand its transparency research, add more visibility for content moderation, create a new Transparency Center for its policies and conduct more in-depth risk analysis. The post also expressed that Google has voiced concerns about the potential “unintended consequences of some of these measures:
“... such as the risk of making it easier for bad actors to abuse our services and spread harmful misinformation by providing too much information about our enforcement approach.” The intention of the EU’s DSA was to consolidate content regulations across the region and form more specific processes for content moderation online. It alsoGeneralfor sites in these categories include prevention and removal of illegal posts and a way to report them, targeted advertising being banned based on a user’s sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or political beliefs, targeted ads to children being restricted and data sharing with researchers and authorities, among others.
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