🔥 In this 'Hot Item', Sebastian Becker, policy advisor at EDRi (European Digital Rights), & the media lab discuss EDRi’s position on the Article 17 media privilege / media exemption of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA).

📌Hot Item Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[00:38] Sebastian Becker
⏲️[08:40] Wrap-up & Outro

🗣️ EDRi is not alone on this. There's a lot of academics, fact checkers organisations and even independent publishers who have declared similar positions on Article 17 EMFA.

🗣️ A 24-hour must-carry obligation for media content: (...) this would be an exception for content moderation policies of very large online platforms. This is problematic (...) The EP CULT Committee is missing the bigger picture.

🗣️ The nature of media service providers does not prevent them from publishing disinformation, propaganda or harmful content. This 24-hour must-carry obligation could open the door to malicious actors.

🗣️ This rule creates an exception for a specific actor on how content moderation rules work in the DSA. Article 17 EMFA does not follow the DSA logic and rules that are already approved in this horizontal regulation.

🗣️ The CULT Committee [proposals] could jeopardise [the] fight against disinformation. (...) [certain] measures such as down ranking, labelling or diluting visibility of media content will not be possible or could be challenged by media.

➡️ European Parliament’s CULT committee set to greenlight controversial amendment to the EMFA in today’s vote (EDRi)

➡️ EU: How will the Media Freedom Act deal with journalism on social media? (ARTICLE 19)

In this podcast MEP Marcel Kolaja (European Pirates, Greens/EFA Group) & the media lab discuss the Media Freedom Act and ‘How To Fix’: the media privilege

📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[00:49] Media Freedom Act - ‘How To Fix’: The Media Privilege
⏲️[04:50] Outro

📌About Our Guest
🎙️ MEP Marcel Kolaja | Czech MEP & EP Quaestor, European Pirates - Greens/EFA Group
🐦 https://twitter.com/piratkolaja
🌐 The benefits and shortcomings of the Media Freedom Act
🌐 European Parliament MEP Page

MEP Marcel Kolaja — member and the 1st vice-president of the Czech Pirate Party— is a Member and Quaestor of the European parliament. He engages in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA), as well as in the delegations for relations with the United States (D-US) and with India (D-IN). His work is mainly focused on topics related to the functioning of society in the digital age. Marcel Kolaja stands for open technologies, freedom on the Internet, independence of media, transparency, and a united Europe.

In this podcast Rita Jonušaitė (EU DisinfoLab) & the media lab discuss the Media Freedom Act and ‘How To Fix’: the media exemption

📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[00:47] Media Freedom Act - ‘How To Fix’: The Media Exemption
⏲️[07:26] Outro

📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Rita Jonušaitė | Advocacy Coordinator, EU DisinfoLab
🐦 https://twitter.com/RitaJonusaite
🌐 Policy Statement on Article 17 of the Proposed European Media Freedom Act - EU DisinfoLab
🌐 Twitter thread on the Media Exemption - EU DisinfoLab
🌐 The European Commission’s EMFA Proposal is Paving the Way for the Media Exemption to Come Back - EU DisinfoLab
🌐 Reject the Media Exemption - EU DisinfoLab
🌐 EU DisinfoLab
🌐 Rita Jonušaitė

Rita Jonušaitė is Advocacy Coordinator at EU DisinfoLab, an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values. Previously Rita worked at the European Youth Forum as Policy and Advocacy Manager and prior to that at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. At the moment Rita is also pursuing a degree in IP & ICT Law at the KU Leuven university in Belgium.