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The EU’s New Content Moderation Rules & Community Driven Platforms

Illustrated by Jasmina El Bouamraoui and Karabo Poppy Moletsane, WP20Symbols "Community 1", Public Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode )

The EU is working on universal rules on content moderation, the Digital Services Act (DSA). Its co-legislators, the European Parliament (EP) and the Council, have adopted their respective negotiating positions in breakneck time by Brussels standards. Next, they will negotiate a final version with each other.   
While the EP’s plenary vote on the DSA is up in January and amendments are still possible, most changes parliamentarians agreed upon will stay. We therefore feel that this is a good moment to look at what both houses are proposing and how it may reflect on community-driven projects like Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

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