{"id":416999,"date":"2025-01-23T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/01\/23\/russia-aula-pugno-duro-su-facebook-e-x\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:48:36","slug":"fake-news-and-pro-russia-propaganda-chamber-calls-for-iron-fist-on-facebook-and-x-italians-are-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/23\/fake-news-and-pro-russia-propaganda-chamber-calls-for-iron-fist-on-facebook-and-x-italians-are-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news and pro-Russia propaganda, chamber calls for iron fist on Facebook and X, Italians are divided"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – European crackdown on social media: EU Parliament says “yes”\u00a0in unity while Italians are divided.<\/strong>\u00a0In the\u00a0resolution<\/a>\u00a0that the chamber approved by a large majority (480 votes in favour, 58 against and 48 abstentions), action is called for against the\u00a0intention\u00a0of\u00a0Meta and X to relax their\u00a0rules on content verification and moderation<\/a> .<\/span>\u00a0A dutiful hard line because, it is reported, “this could allow Russia’s disinformation campaign to spread further around the world.” The Lega, however, abstains, while the 5-Star Movement\u00a0and Sinistra Italiana oppose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to understand the real reasons for voting on a text encompassing anything and everything.\u00a0There is not only a call for firmness against Internet overlords Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) and Elon Musk (X)<\/strong>; there is also a call to intensify the fight against Russian propaganda through “media literacy and support for quality information channels and professional journalism.” The non-binding text also calls for an EU-wide ban on the use and dissemination of Nazi and Soviet communist symbols.<\/p>\n

Many elements to say “yes” or “no” to an inevitably divisive proposal.<\/p>\n

The political goal remains censorship against Russia, pointed at as today’s evil. In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a role is likely to be played by the dissemination of messages and content on the Internet, which sees the chamber enjoining the European Commission and member states to “strictly apply” the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), “an important element of the fight against Russian disinformation.” It would mean attacking the person responsible for cutting government spending in the Trump administration, after that\u00a0the chamber\u00a0already split\u00a0on X’s patron, Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Parliament passed a resolution to crack down on social media to counter the spread of pro-Putin rhetoric. The Lega abstains, M5S and the Italian Left oppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":248004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681,25727],"tags":[26090,25755,27893,26131,26143,29813,30253,27368,26995,25803,28800,26091],"class_list":["post-416999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-services-digital-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-facebook-en-2","tag-internet-en-2","tag-alloy-en-2","tag-m5s-en-2","tag-m5s-europe-and","tag-meta-en","tag-disinformation-en","tag-russia-in-2","tag-x-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417011,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416999\/revisions\/417011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}