Science Feedback

Report March 2025

Submitted

In 2024, Science Feedback continued its active participation, notably with the expectation that the Code of Practice would transition to a DSA Code of Conduct in 2025. We welcome the finalization of this transition.


On election protection, Science Feedback’s main effort was our active participation in the Rapid Response System (RRS) set up under this Code of Practice.

The existence of this RRS was a key factor in our decision to step up our monitoring efforts of the election campaign period, as it offered a window of transparency into platforms’ decision-making processes when it came to approaching election-related disinformation. 

Making use of the possibility for a fruitful exchange of information with other stakeholders, Science Feedback signalled to platform signatories a number of pieces of content which contained election-related disinformation that was likely to breach platforms’ guidelines or applicable legislation.

The content flagged related to:

  • - the enforcement of EU sanctions on Russian media entities and personalities, some of whose content was still available to EU audiences on various platforms despite the law prohibiting it,
  • - medical misinformation, notably misleading information about Covid-19, 
  • - the spreading of conspiracy theories (around the attack on Slovak Prime Minister R. Fico, election rigging…) 
  • - foreign interference in EU democratic processes, notably the Döppelganger campaign,
  • - the use of fake accounts impersonating politicians or political parties, 
  • - defamation.

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Commitment 26
Relevant Signatories commit to provide access, wherever safe and practicable, to continuous, real-time or near real-time, searchable stable access to non-personal data and anonymised, aggregated, or manifestly-made public data for research purposes on Disinformation through automated means such as APIs or other open and accessible technical solutions allowing the analysis of said data.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 26.1
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
If yes, list these implementation measures here
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
Measure 26.1
Relevant Signatories will provide public access to non-personal data and anonymised, aggregated or manifestly-made public data pertinent to undertaking research on Disinformation on their services, such as engagement and impressions (views) of content hosted by their services, with reasonable safeguards to address risks of abuse (e.g. API policies prohibiting malicious or commercial uses).
QRE 26.1.1
Relevant Signatories will describe the tools and processes in place to provide public access to non-personal data and anonymised, aggregated and manifestly-made public data pertinent to undertaking research on Disinformation, as well as the safeguards in place to address risks of abuse.
Science Feedback operates and manages the Consensus Credibility Scores database, which aggregates credibility ratings for online domains.In order to avoid misuse, we manually review and approve access to the data individually.