Für eine gestufte Verifizierung von Social-Media-Nutzern in der EU
- Target:
- Europäische Kommission, zuständig für den Digital Services Act (DSA)
- Region:
- Germany
- Website:
- digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
⚠️ Important notice:
This petition is intended for public mobilisation and awareness.
The formally submitted and procedurally relevant petition addressed to the European Commission is hosted on https://openpetition.eu/!jkjgm
Social media platforms play a central role in public discourse within the European Union. While they enable freedom of expression and participation, they also facilitate the spread of harassment, disinformation, coordinated manipulation, and abusive behavior carried out under false or anonymous identities.
Existing EU legislation such as the Digital Services Act focuses primarily on content moderation and platform responsibility, but does not sufficiently address the issue of accountability of individual user identities.
A lack of reliable identity verification makes it difficult to prevent repeated abuse, targeted harassment, foreign influence operations, and the misuse of social media for criminal or anti-democratic purposes.
This petition aims to raise public awareness and to call on EU institutions to consider an EU-wide, harmonized approach to user verification on social media platforms, while respecting data protection, privacy, and fundamental rights under EU law.
We, the undersigned, call on the European Commission to introduce EU-wide mandatory user verification requirements for large social media platforms in order to reduce abuse, disinformation and anonymous harassment while protecting fundamental rights and freedom of expression.
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