The European Commission sent a letter to Alphabet Inc. subsidiaries Google and YouTube on Friday warning the Big Tech giant to be aware of graphic content and misinformation during the Israel and Hamas conflict in the Middle East.
The European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton addressed the letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, reminding the company about its content moderation obligations under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
“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 the letter, posted on X.
In the letter, Breton highlighted legal requirements for Google to keep graphic content, like hostage videos, hidden from minors in the European Union.
“I would firstly like to remind you that you have a particular obligation to protect the millions of children and teenagers…
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