Putin Floods EU With Fake News on Telegram, Bloc Says
- ‘Hostile actors’ can abuse lack of regulation, Jourova says
- Regulators checking if EU’s tough new law applies to firm
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Vladimir Putin and “other hostile actors” are able to abuse a lack of regulation for the Telegram platform to spread fake news in the European Union’s eastern nations, a top EU commissioner warned.
“Telegram is an issue,” Vera Jourova, European Commission vice president for values and transparency, told Bloomberg TV. She said the service “is especially active in the eastern member states where we have a Russian-speaking minority.”