TikTok and Meta have agreed to join a voluntary coordination mechanism chaired by the European Commission with fact-checkers, following the spread of disinformation online that fuelled the mass crossings in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in which around 100 people died.
On Monday, Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission's Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, announced that TikTok and Meta had activated a crisis protocol to set up a cooperation mechanism with fact-checkers after tens of thousands of migrants illegally crossed the Spanish border.
