Mr. Didier Reynders:

We are working on different ways to organise a process to deal with hate speech or disinformation on new media and social media. We have a code of conduct with the major platforms to try to remove hate speech from them. It started with terrorist content. That was the most important issue at the beginning but we have tried to develop that in a code of conduct. Now we have adopted at Commission level the Digital Services Act, DSA, to go further with obligations to the platforms. There are discussions between the co-legislators to put the DSA in place. It is not just about hate speech. We will try to go further with an extension of the Eurocrime list. That has unanimity at Council level and I am sure we will have the support of Ireland on the extension of the list. Then we need to discuss what sort to reaction is needed against disinformation. It is different when speaking about illegal content like hate speech as opposed to legal content such as false information going to the public. We are working in DSA on this and will continue to see how it is possible to take new initiatives on this. We have seen in Europe and other parts of the world the problems we have. We want to have rules on this. We do not want to leave it in the hands of private companies organising their business on social media. We want rules and the first goal of the Digital Services Act is to organise that.