By Foo Yun Chee
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:) has added security features to its CrowdTangle misinformation tracking tool for use during the European Parliament elections, in a bid to allay EU concerns that triggered an investigation on last month about the impact of its decision to phase out the tool.
The American social media platform said last week that candidates for next month's polls will be shown a notification at the top of their feed on facebook and instagram about how to protect themselves and their accounts.
This includes directing them to resources that explain, among other things, how to set up two-factor authentication, review security settings, or set up Hidden Words, which is an instagram feature that automatically sends requests for personal messages that contain offensive words, phrases, and emojis. to a hidden folder.
Meta, which has more than 250 million monthly users in the European Union, followed up last week's announcement on Monday with live presentations for each EU country, sorted by relevant keywords, public groups and instagram accounts, which They will allow the monitoring of the elections in real time. by researchers, journalists and civil society.
The European Commission welcomed the move.
“The Commission will monitor the effective deployment of these functionalities and will continue to work with Meta to achieve more permanent solutions that meet all its concerns as set out in the opening decision,” the EU executive said in a statement.
“The formal process against Meta is still open,” he stated.
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