EU review of terrorist content online pushed back to include Israel-Gaza war

A planned European Commission evaluation to assess the effectiveness of rules to combat terrorist content online has been pushed back to 2025 to include the Hamas attack against Israel on 7 October of last year, the EU executive said in a reply to Parliamentary questions.

The terrorist content online regulation, which entered into force in June 2022, aims to counter terrorists’ misuse of social media and the dark web to radicalise, recruit and incite to violence.

EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said in a reply to questions from lawmaker Patrick Breyer (Germany, Greens/EFA) that the adoption of the evaluation report, which was originally planned this June, is now foreseen for the second quarter of 2025.

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