Israel-Hamas battle: how social media corporations are dealing with the response

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The battle in Israel presents content material moderation challenges for the most well-liked social media websites.

Following the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel, social media corporations are going through elevated strain to crack down on violent content material, hate speech, and disinformation.

Some social platforms are already sharing particulars of their response: Meta is tightening safety measures amidst a rise in content material violating its guidelines, whereas TikTok has additionally dedicated to stepping up its moderation within the wake of the assaults.

Regardless of this, each Meta and TikTok are going through scrutiny from the European Fee over whether or not their response complies with the Digital Companies Act, a algorithm that maintain giant social media corporations accountable for stopping unlawful content material from being posted to their platforms.

The European Fee is trying into the way in which X (previously Twitter) is dealing with the Israel-Hamas battle as properly and likewise despatched a letter to YouTube to remind the corporate of its duty to maintain unlawful content material and disinformation off its platform.

Listed here are all of the updates on what social platforms are doing in response to the Israel-Hamas battle.