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"Nobody has really fully respected the code, I would tell you if somebody had. But from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and TikTok, one did better than the others," said Thierry Breton (r) (Photo: European Union, 2021)

Twitter 'best' at applying EU disinformation code

Social media giant Twitter tops US tech firms applying an EU code to tackle disinformation - even if it does so only partially.

"Nobody has really fully respected the code," Thierry Breton, the EU's internal market commissioner, told reporters on Wednesday (26 May).

"I would tell you if somebody had. But from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and TikTok, one did better than the others."

EUobserver was informed it was Twitter. All five had signed up to the voluntary 2018 ...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

"Nobody has really fully respected the code, I would tell you if somebody had. But from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and TikTok, one did better than the others," said Thierry Breton (r) (Photo: European Union, 2021)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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