Gustavo Cardoso, sociologist and Mediab coordinator, collaborates the integrated communications sciences institute in ISCTE (Lisbon University Institute), and José Moreno, researcher in the same entity Rapid Response System – RSS (The fast response system, in Portuguese), which “It has been used several times in many European elections, but this is the first time that it has been used in Portugal.”.
According to these investigators, this is a change, because At this time, the European Commission will resume, for all elections, to Behavior rules against wrong informationIn expression with the European Digital Services Regulation (DSA).
According to this symbol, during electoral actions, SignAran platforms “is required to create a system that condemns the wrong information procedures that may affect the elections very quickly”Explain the investigators.
“At this stage, what is on the table with Fast response system Fans in Portugal, in this case the media laboratory – the entity that was contacted – Quickly reporting the wrong information situations that may have effects in the elections. Give them directly to the platforms so that they can take a quick position. “The idea is this exactly,” Jose Moreno said in an interview with Losa.
Behavior Blog against “It is a volunteer agreement that has been shared in a series of platforms, which was originally part of Twitter.. Since the Elon Musk bought this network (2022), the symbol is collected “All except X (previous Twitter)”.
Thus, now, “The Code of Conduct continues to work, DSA continues to work, The fast response system continues to work, with most platforms, all the main platforms except X. There is Microsoft, there is YouTube, there is the goal (…) there tiktok.
All main platforms He pledged to receive the complaint and act as soon as possibleWith the exception of x.
However, the researcher noticed, “X is an important platform from a political point of view, but Facebook and Instagram are more important platforms from a social point of view(Why) has more social access from X in most countries. “
The selection of Mediab by the European Commission is Iberifier, the Iberian Digital Observatory that aims to combat wrong information, which is also part of LUSA.
“What the committee is doing is to cooperate with the EDMO knot (European Digital Observatory, a European network that studies the dynamics of wrong information) in Romania, with the Edmo knot in Poland, the Edmo node in Portugal, and thus the Iberifier of the Portuguese situation arises,” according to Gustavo Cardodo.
The rapid response system of the legislative bodies in Portugal has been active since April 21 and it was extended until May 25, after a week of voting. The Mediab team, which is interested in this project, is made up by Gustavo Cardoso, José Moreno, Inês Narciso and Paulo Custoiro.
