Making Facebook or Google more responsible for what users publish, the biggest

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Finally, this month the draft that the European Commission has presented for the new Digital Services Regulation was released. This is a long-awaited norm that will now try to move forward in the European Parliament. It starts a debate that will last, at least, a couple of years. One of the many fronts that this new Regulation aims to open is who is responsible for the content that users publish on these technological platforms: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Airbnb... With the proposed Regulation on the table, what the Commission intends is to establish much clearer, objective and transparent criteria to combat disinformation and incitement to violence and terrorism that proliferate on social networks.

Multinationals will have to be much clearer when explaining why they have removed certain content, and users will be able to appeal to the authorities if they consider that they have been subjected to a case of censorship or abuse. Artificial intelligence to combat fake news and deepfakes: two students get a scholarship at Telefónica after overcoming a teleco challenge The jurist specialized in technological law, the expert Sergio Carrasco, abounded on social networks, just hours after the draft of the Regulation was Europe Cell Phone Number List published, how the new Regulation plans to do it. For example, he eliminates the possibility of platforms actively monitoring what users upload to the networks, which could lead to cases of prior censorship. It also determines how platforms will have to explain what content they have deleted and introduces the figure of  trusted flaggers , a term that could be translated as trusted whistleblowers.

An example of this  trusted flagger  could be signatures like Smart Protection. "With censorship issues we have a problem: what can and cannot be published on a platform. But many of these problems already existed in previous legislation , they are not introduced in the Regulation." The speaker is Gemma Galdón, CEO and founder of Eticas Research & Consulting, a Spanish firm specialized in the ethical audit of algorithms and technologies. Smart Protection is the guardian of Google, Amazon or Facebook: this is how you gain their trust to pursue infringements by your users "The problem is who decides what can be said and what cannot be said. All over the world, states have sought to have Facebook make that decision, and that has always seemed irresponsible to me. Mark Zuckerberg, a private company, cannot be the judge of what can be said in the world," he continues.