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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 22:31:29 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   Today, the EU Parliament endorsed the EU Media Freedom Act (EMFA), promising greater transparency about media ownership and protection against government surveillance. Yet, it lacks key safeguards and grants problematic content moderation privileges to media service providers. 1/

   • Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 22:32:25 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     The EMFA addresses media capture threats but the protections against spying on journalists aren’t robust enough. EMFA also sets out a 24-hour content moderation exemption for media, which makes platforms host content by force. Here's why this is a bad idea 2/2

     https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/latest-eu-media-freedom-act-agreement-bad-deal-users