Poland Presses Facebook, YouTube to Stop ‘Misinformation’

The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has met with representatives of both Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, including the CEO of the latter, in order to discuss alleged Russian “disinformation” on the two platforms.

Poland’s government has taken a mixed approach to the question of online censorship, on the one hand promoting a law to protect the free speech rights of citizens from Silicon Valley censorship, but also pressing tech giants to deal with alleged Russian “disinformation” in the wake of the Ukraine conflict.

Duda recently met with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and Facebook global affairs VP and former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to discuss the issue.