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EurActiv (17 February 2021)

Regulation alone will not solve the huge disinformation problem Europe faces, but the incoming Digital Services Act can certainly help, writes Carlos Hernández-Echevarría.

Carlos Hernández-Echevarría is the head of public policy and institutional development at Maldita.es, a European nonprofit journalistic platform and the most visited independent fact-checking website in the European Union.

As the EU reflects on how to establish ground rules for big Internet companies, it needs to take into account how to encourage those platforms to contribute to a more fact-based public discourse, because in that lies one of our biggest challenges as a society: the quality of the information citizens have when they make decisions about our common future.

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