S&D vice-president Alex Agius Saliba on the abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalise young people through hate speech and anti-democratic discourse

What is illegal offline should be illegal online too. Tech firms often use every dirty trick that they can think of to maximise their profits and keep their audience hooked through sensationalist and harmful content. To change this we must ensure that companies running social media platforms are not exploitative and keep their content safe and free from hate speech, misinformation and malicious algorithmic activities.