The European Commission has given Goal -owner of Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook- already TikTok a period of one week to provide detailed information on the measures they have taken to comply with the new European Union rules to stop the spread of misinformation and violent and hateful contentin a week that was especially active on social networks due to conflict in the middle eastin full escalation between Israel and Hamas.

This notification is the step before Brussels consider opening a sanctioning procedure for breaking the new rules of the Digital Services Law European and which, ultimately, provides fines for companies that do not correct irregularities at the end of the process.

In both the case of Meta and TikTok, the Community Executive provides two deadlines for the platforms to respond to their questions. Thus, they must first explain, no later than October 25, the risk assessments and crisis measures adopted to prevent the spread of hoaxes, illegal content and hate speech since last October 7 Hamas to launch its offensive against Israel.

In addition, they will have two more weeks, until November 8, to inform the European Commission, in the case of Meta, of how it has acted to ensure the integrity of the elections –Polandand Slovakiafor example, have held elections this month) and, in the TikTok case, about measures to protect minors and the integrity of the elections.

Already last week, the Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, sent a ultimatum similar to tycoon Elon Muskto give explanations about the dissemination of hate content on its social network ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter.