The Spanish Government will ask the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate whether X, Meta and TikTok have committed crimes
"These platforms are violating the mental health, dignity and rights of our children, something that the state cannot tolerate," Pedro Sánchez stressed on the X social network.
The Council of Ministers shall apply to Article 8 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor's Office for the investigation of offences committed by X, Meta and TikTok for the creation and dissemination of child pornography through artificial intelligence.
This has been announced by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, on the social network X, who has warned that "the impunity of the giants must end".
"These platforms are violating the mental health, dignity and rights of our children.
The Minister for Youth and Children, Sira Rego, has stressed in Bluesky that with this decision the Spanish Government has taken a further step towards guaranteeing the rights of children on social networks.
The Minister recalled that in January the Public Prosecutor's Office was asked to investigate whether X had committed a child pornography offence and stressed that "today, in the Council of Ministers, we activated Article 8 of the Statute of the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate large platforms".
On February 6, the President of the Spanish Government announced a campaignof five measures against social networks through a video, considering that "there are applications that support criminal, pornographic and violent activities".
"Our determination is stronger than their pockets, "he said, emphasizing that" social media has unfortunately become a wild place. "
In the middle of his speech, he showed a sign with the message: "Grok's users created three million sexualized images of X in 11 days, including more than 23,000 minors."
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