Google says no to EU fact-checking law
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Google notified the European Union (EU) it won’t comply with its new fact-checking law, according to a new report that says the massive search engine won’t include funds in its search function and YouTube video results.
Axios pointed out that this is not a practice Google has ever engaged in and said the company had previously signaled to the international body that it was unlikely to integrate its new fact-checking practice.
Fox News Digital could not immediately reach Google to confirm what steps it is taking to find the most legitimate posts through its search engine, given past concerns. consequences of disinformation campaigns.
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Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, appears to have informed Renate Nicolas, deputy director general of the European Commission’s communications networks, content and technology authority, that Disinformation Code of Practice “Simply not convenient or effective for our services.”
Walker reportedly argued that Google’s current approach to content moderation is already effective and does not need an additional fact-checking component, which under new EU guidelines appears to display fact-checking results alongside search results.
Republicans on the Hill defended it as a victory for free speech, including House Majority Leader Tom Emmer, who said in an op-ed on Thursday that it was “a step in the right direction. Kudos to Google for pushing back against the EU experiment.” : make censorship the new norm.”
It’s unclear whether Google also viewed this push for fact-checking as a form of “censorship,” or whether its opposition to the regulation was unnecessary given the other methods the company uses to moderate its search results.
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But the news comes when large technology companies they have increasingly been accused of hooking up with President Donald Trump on his return to the White House
Google CEO Sundar Pichai attended Trump’s second inauguration alongside other tech leaders such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook and TikTok CEO Shaw Qiu.
Fox Business could not immediately reach the European Commission for comment.
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