The European Union announced a probe into eight major social media platforms' efforts to address syntheticly created audio and visual content, better known as deepfakes, in the lead-up to European Parliament elections in June, according to an EU press release published on March 14. The inquiry is aimed at companies including Meta, Snap, TikTok and X, which will have until April 5 to disclose how they identify and mitigate deepfakes and other generative artificial intelligence risks related to disinformation.