Google has told the EU it won’t comply with future fact-checking legislation, according to a copy of letter obtained by Axios. The company says it doesn’t add fact checks to search results or YouTube videos and doesn’t use fact-check data when ranking or removing content.

It is important to note that Google does not engage in fact-checking as part of its content moderation policy. The company, however, invest in a European fact-checking database before the recent EU elections.

The future fact-checking requirement was originally implemented recently by the European Commission Code of Practice on Disinformation. It started as a voluntary set of “self-regulatory standards to combat disinformation” but will soon become mandatory.

Google’s global affairs president Kent Walker said fact-checking integration was “not appropriate or effective in our services” in a letter to the European Commission. The company also touted its current approach to content moderation, suggesting it did a bang-up job during last year’s “unprecedented global election cycle.”

Google also points out a new feature added by YouTube last year which enables some users to add contextual notes to videos, saying it “has significant potential.” This program is similar to X’s Community Notes and, possibly, any new hell Meta is cooking.

Walker went on to say that Google would continue to invest current content moderation technologiessuch as Synth ID watermarking and AI disclosures on YouTube. We don’t know what the EU will do in response to Google once its digital fact-checking practices become law.

This happened after Meta announced it ending its fact-checking program in the US, so who knows if Mark Zuckerberg will comply with EU laws. X repeated former professional fact checkers. Big tech seems to have a big problem with, um, facts.