Tech giants’ slowing progress on hate speech removals underscores need for law, says EC

Tech giants’ slowing progress on hate speech removals underscores need for law, says EC

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https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/tech-giants-slowing-progress-on-hate-speech-removals-underscores-need-for-law-says-ec/

Tech giants have gotten worse at removing illegal hate speech from their platforms under a voluntary arrangement in the European Union, according to the Commission’s latest assessment.

The sixth evaluation report of the EU’s Code of Conduct on removing illegal hate speech found what the bloc’s executive calls a “mixed picture”, with platforms reviewing 81% of the notifications within 24 hours and removing an average of 62.5% of flagged content.