En matière d'espionnage, la France a tenté d'inscrire dans le Media Freedom Act européen une exception permettant d'autoriser la surveillance électronique des journalistes, au nom de la « sécurité nationale ».
🇩🇪Verhandler feiern den Schutz von Journalistenhandys durch den neuen #MediaFreedomAct#EMFA (ohne Ausnahme für "nationale Sicherheit").
Aber bitte nicht vergessen: Union, SPD und FDP haben von Anfang an kein Verbot des Ausspähens von Journalistenhandys gefordert!
🇬🇧Negotiators celebrate the protection of journalists' mobile phones by the new #MediaFreedomAct#EMFA (no exception for "national security").
But don't forget: The majority did not call for a ban on spying on journalists' mobile phones from the outset!
#EU#EMFA#MediaFreedomAct#PressFreedom#DigitalRights#ContentModeration: "Millions of EU users trust that online platforms will take care of content that violates community standards. But contrary to concerns raised by EFF and other civil society groups, Article 17 of the EMFA enforces a 24-hour content moderation exemption for media, effectively making platforms host content by force.
This “must carry” rule prevents large online platforms like X or Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, from removing or flagging media content that breaches community guidelines. If the deal becomes law, it could undermine equality of speech, fuel disinformation, and threaten marginalized groups. It also poses important concerns about government interference in editorial decisions.
Imagine signing up to a social media platform committed to removing hate speech, only to find that EU regulations prevent platforms from taking any action against it."
🇬🇧#PredatorFiles: Spyware needs to be banned - contrary to last week's vote of conservatives, socialists and liberals on the #MediaFreedomAct.
And smartphone operating system manufacturers should be held liable for the unpatched security holes that spyware manufacturers exploit! https://t.co/uFVn8c6CNb
The European Parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of stronger rules protecting press freedom and journalists.
The so-called Media Freedom Act, proposed in September 2022 by the European Commission, aims to enforce greater transparency of media funding, the protection of outlets from political pressure and the defence of journalists from spyware, such as Pegasus.
🇬🇧 In the plenary of the EU Parliament, the #MediaFreedomAct was voted on today. Here you can see which groups supported “exceptional” use of spyware against journalists: https://t.co/FLWAS5DnxA
Guter Tag für die #Pressefreiheit: EU-Parlament will unabhängige Medien vor der Zensurwillkür und fehleranfälligem #Uploadfilter von Zuckerberg, Musk usw. schützen. Wir sollten selbst entscheiden dürfen, welchen Quellen wir vertrauen und was "Desinformation" ist! #MediaFreedomAct
Not sure the panel recording will be public, so here are my notes in a long 🧵 thread:
▶️ The DSA is rather good at respecting #freedom of expression, it gives platforms some new tools to carefully consider and improve their moderation practices and users to defend their rights. [1/8]
...demanded for in the EU’s #MediaFreedomAct#EMFA are not going to help. They are setting dangerous precedents for a two-tier #moderation system that is going to benefit some very prolific producers of disinformation and hatred online: Think #CNews in #France, the #DailyMail in the #UK, or any state-affiliated outlet in #Hungary and #Poland. There's a reason why even temporary ‘must carry’ obligations have been rejected in the #DSA and they should absolutely not be added to #EMFA. [4/8]
EU governments want a broad legal carve-out to continue to use #spyware such as #Pegasus against reporters.
Governments are "taking dangerous steps towards legalising unacceptable forms of #surveillance against #journalists and their #sources. If confirmed, these changes would kill all the potential the European #MediaFreedomAct#EMFA has to stop spyware scandals in the EU," says @edri's @chlobemy