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Communication from the Commission - TRIS/(2023) 3732
Directive (EU) 2015/1535
Notification: 2023/0759/LT
Notification of a draft text from a Member State
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MSG: 20233732.EN
1. MSG 001 IND 2023 0759 LT EN 27-12-2023 LT NOTIF
2. Lithuania
3A. Lietuvos standartizacijos departamentas, Algirdo 31, Vilnius, el. paštas lstboard@lsd.lt
3B. Lietuvos Respublikos ekonomikos ir inovacijų ministerija, Gedimino pr. 38, Vilnius, el. paštas kanc@eimin.lt
4. 2023/0759/LT - SERV20 - Electronic commerce
5. LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA AMENDING ARTICLES 2, 48 AND 50 OF LAW NO I-1418 ON THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC AND SUPPLEMENTING THE LAW WITH ARTICLE 52(1)
6. Online social networking services
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8. The draft law will establish a separate legal regime for increasing the visibility and accessibility of prohibited information through the manipulation of online social networking platform accounts. The amendment will make the fight against disinformation, war propaganda and incitement to war more targeted, and will create legal opportunities to better protect the information space, as well as the interests of the public and of individual natural persons. The Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Office’) and the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commission’) are empowered to order the provider of an online social networking service to remove, within a period of 24 hours, the artificially inflated number of views, comments, content shares, likes, followers, and/or subscribers of the sensitive information referred to in Article 19(1)(1) of the Law on Public Information No. I-1418 of the Republic of Lithuania. The Office and the Commission will forward all information related to the instruction to the Communications Regulatory Authority, which will be empowered by the Law on Information Society Services No X-614 of the Republic of Lithuania to perform the functions of the coordinator of the digital services set out in Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. In cases where online social network service providers do not respond to the Commission’s or the Office’s instructions to remove the amplifications, the Communications Regulatory Authority will have the right to refer the matter to the European Commission or to the digital services coordinator of the Member State of establishment for an assessment.
9. On online social networking platforms, entities of states hostile to the Republic of Lithuania actively use artificial means to increase the visibility and reach of their content, in order to ensure that content that is useful to them, and which is usually of an anti-state or disinformation nature, acquires the status of popular/reliable content, and thus reaches a larger number of users of the online social networks. In the most effective way, such artificial increase in the visibility and availability of content is done through specially designed bot farms, which automatically generate content views, comments, posts, etc. according to set parameters. Although the rules of online social networking service providers prohibit automated accounts, no attention is paid to identifying and blocking them. The experience of the state institutions of the Republic of Lithuania also shows that the effectiveness of removing illegal content and disinformation from online social networks is very low. It is important to note that in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine, automated accounts are actively used to share hostile information, comments and articles aimed at spreading disinformation, reinforcing protest moods, forming hostile narratives, creating discord, and manipulating opinion. Automated accounts and their networks are a threat to both democracy and national security and represent a significant problem.
10. References of the Basic Texts: No Basic Text exists
11. No
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13. No
14. No
15. No
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TBT aspects: No
SPS aspects: No
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European Commission
Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu
