Google CEO gets letter from EU to remove Israeli war disinformation from YouTube
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Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market, wrote a letter to Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on Friday to remove disinformation and illegal content from YouTube amid the war between Israel and Hamas.
"Following the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel, we are seeing a surge of illegal content and disinformation being disseminated in the EU via certain platforms," Breton wrote in his letter, adding that YouTube needs to be compliant with the Digital Services Act and remove the content.
The Digital Services Act, or DSA, requires online platforms to remove illegal content from their platforms.
Earlier in the week, Breton sent similar letters to Meta Platforms (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X founder Elon Musk.
On Thursday, Linda Yaccarino, CEO for X, formerly known as Twitter, said the company has removed hundreds of accounts linked to Hamas. Additionally, it has "taken action to remove or label tens of thousands of pieces of content" since Hamas attacked Israel this past weekend.
For its part, Meta unveiled a new content monitoring plan in response to the Israeli-Hamas war on Friday, including the removal of more than 795,000 pieces of content that violated several of the company's policies.
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