The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) regrets that the Commission's statement on online misinformation does not contain any mandatory measures. This comes from an opinion drawn up by Martin Siecker and adopted in mid-September.
The document laments the lack of programmes to support traditional media, public-private partnerships to create paid but secure online platforms, measures to strengthen monitoring or break online monopolies.
The EESC opinion does not go into detail on the code of good practice adopted at the end of September by platforms and advertisers and which will be officially presented by the European Commission on 10 October (see EUROPE 12104). However, this code is the subject of much criticism from the think tank (associated with the drafting work within the multi-stakeholder forum), as Ravi Vatrapu (Copenhagen Business School), Grégoire Polad (Association of Commercial Television in Europe) and Nicola Frank (European Broadcasting Union) pointed out at a press conference on Thursday 4 October. Among other things, they consider that the code lacks a common approach, clear and meaningful commitments, measurable objectives or key performance indicators (KPIs). (original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)