谷歌宣布退出欧盟的《虚假信息行为准则》，该准则要求科技公司在其搜索引擎和YouTube算法中加入事实核查功能。尽管该准则不具有法律约束力，但包括谷歌在内的许多社交媒体平台此前都自愿签署。谷歌此举并非是回滚现有政策，而是拒绝进一步承担事实核查义务。谷歌表示，在《数字服务法案》（DSA）生效之前，将退出该准则的所有事实核查承诺。此举引发了人们对大型科技公司在内容监管方面责任的关注。

🌐 谷歌拒绝欧盟反虚假信息准则：谷歌明确表示不会在搜索和YouTube算法中加入事实核查功能，拒绝遵守欧盟的《虚假信息行为准则》。

📜 自愿签署，并非法律约束：该准则为自愿签署，不具备法律约束力，但许多平台此前已签署，谷歌此次退出引起关注。

🚫 并非政策回滚，而是拒绝进一步承诺：谷歌此举并非是撤销现有事实核查措施，而是拒绝承担进一步的核查义务。

⚖️ 《数字服务法案》（DSA）影响：欧盟的《数字服务法案》具有法律约束力，未来或将影响到虚假信息准则的实施，谷歌的退出可能与此有关。

After Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant is opting out of a new EU law that requires fact checks.

While tech companies might feel emboldened now to make such policy decisions in an attempt to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump, it's a little different in Google's case — the company has never quite provided fact-checking of its search products or videos on YouTube, which it owns. So, at least as of now, Google isn't rolling back anything, it's just not committing to go any further.

A letter from Google’s global affairs president Kent Walker to Renate Nikolay, the European Commission’s content and technology czar, was obtained by Axios and lays out Google's rejection of the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation.

The code would require that Google develop fact-checking capabilities into its search engine ranking and YouTube algorithms. 

Signing on to these rules was voluntary as the disinformation code isn't legally binding. However, many social media platforms including Google, Meta, and even Twitter — before Elon Musk's acquisition — previously signed onto the code. As The Verge points out, even prior to the sudden policy changes at Meta, the European Fact-Checking Standards Network found that many of the online platforms that voluntarily signed on were "reneging on their commitments."

The code was created before the EU's official content moderation law, the Digital Services Act or DSA, went into effect in 2022. The DSA is legally binding so it will be interesting to see if any of the disinformation code gets implemented under the DSA and what Big Tech companies would do about it when that happens.

Google's letter to the European Commission states that the company would "pull out of all fact-checking commitments in the Code before it becomes a DSA Code of Conduct."