On Monday 4 February, the European Commission unveiled the results of its fourth assessment of the Code of Conduct introduced in 2016 to combat illegal hate speech online.
On average, in 72% of cases, Internet giants responded to hate speech notifications by deleting content, compared to 70% in the previous evaluation (see EUROPE 11943) and 40% when the Code was first launched in 2016.
“Today results of the evaluation show that we did the right thing with this voluntary approach”,...