STORY: The European Commission has asked social media giants including Meta, X and TikTok to take a “stress test” ahead of the German election……to determine whether they’re doing enough to counter disinformation.That’s according to an EU spokesperson on Friday (January 24). It marks the first time this test will be held for a national election. Other tech giants invited to the Jan. 31 session include Microsoft, Google and Snap.All to determine if their safeguards against risk comply with the EU’s Digital Service Act.The EU said the stress test would be scenarios based, checking how the companies would respond.TikTok confirmed it would be attending the session. But representatives for Meta, Snap, Google-owner Alphabet, X, Microsoft and LinkedIn did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
