Members of the European Parliament have a renewed duty to address the thorny issue of regulating social media content, in the wake of last week’s Capitol Hill riots, the chair of the Parliament’s Internal Market committee told EURACTIV. Speaking following last week’s violent uprising in the US capital, Green MEP Anna Cavazzini said the world’s ‘eyes have been opened’ to the challenge of dealing with online disinformation and the spread of online hate. “What we saw in Washington was horrific,” Cavazzini said. “But it’s a culmination of years of online hatred and fake news that has been built up over recent years. This is nothing new.”