{"id":35683,"date":"2021-05-26T17:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35683"},"modified":"2021-05-26T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T00:52:40","slug":"the-european-commission-is-pushing-for-stronger-rules-around-online-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35683","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission is pushing for stronger rules around online disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is pushing for stronger rules around online disinformation, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ummmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhhcyfmy_gwncrrgygdctyywtrmym.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ummmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhhcyfmy_gwncrrgygdctyywtrmym.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622152461230000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKEQL7pXf7gvcOyWsYA9a2lYWnNQ\">guidance released Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance calls for reinforcing the European Union\u2019s Code of Practice on Disinformation with stronger commitments from the tech companies that have signed onto the code that was launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0notably urges the code to be updated to call for tech companies to demonetize content with disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreats posed by disinformation online are fast evolving and we need to step up our collective action to empower citizens and protect the democratic information space,\u201d V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1, vice president for values and transparency, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is pushing for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35684,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions\/35684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}