On Tuesday 29 January, the European Commission published a first mixed assessment of the commitments made by platforms and the advertising industry to combat disinformation following its Communication of spring 2018 (see EUROPE 12010). However, it postponed until the end of 2019 (and therefore until the next term of office) the possibility that it left open for itself to legislate on this issue.
"There are encouraging signs of the beginning of action... What we are asking is to accelerate,...