EU Revives Alliance with U.S. Tech Companies to Combat Disinformation

The European Union is reviving an alliance formed last year with U.S. tech companies to combat online political disinformation, now focused on false information about the coronavirus. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, has renewed a rapid-alert system it created with Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Mozilla Corp. to ensure that measures against disinformation about the novel coronavirus are shared quickly with EU governments.

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