Germany’s digital regulator and the European Commission said on Friday they carried out a simulation exercise with major platforms like X and TikTok to test their capacity to counter disinformation ahead of national elections.

The European Commission has asked social media giants including Facebook, TikTok and X to take part in a test to see whether they are doing enough to counter disinformation in the run-up to next month's German election,

Also last month, European Union regulators opened an investigation into whether TikTok breached the EU’s online safety and fairness rules by failing to prevent alleged Russian interference in Romania’s presidential election. TikTok said it had “prote ...

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The European Union (EU) is probing social media heavyweights including Meta and X as part of a stress test on disinformation

The Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively banned TikTok in the U.S. The ban prohibits app stores from distributing TikTok, but it won't be deleted from devices on which it's already installed. President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to issue an ...

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Dailymotion, Jeuxvideo.com, Rakuten Viber, and Microsoft-hosted consumer services have all signed the “Code

Police and fire personnel responded to the report of a fire at the strip mall containing the congressman's office at around 1 a.m. Sunday.

The Federal Network Agency invited platform operators to a round table with the EU Commission in Berlin. The aim was to protect the integrity of the election.

TikTok is widely regarded to be one of the worst offenders when it comes to harvesting user data. Last year, the US, Canada and EU enacted bans on using the app on government devices, and it's now ...

The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the company is collecting and storing data.

China has not received an adequacy decision for international data transfers due to known and expected access by the government. The six apps that the noyb privacy complaints are targeting are TikTok,