BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Meta's Facebook,

Elon Musk's X, Google's YouTube and other tech

companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech

under an updated code of conduct that will now be integrated

into EU tech rules, the European Commission said on Monday.

Other signatories to the voluntary code set up in May 2016

are Dailymotion, Instagram, Jeuxvideo.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft ( MSFT )

hosted consumer services, Snapchat, Rakuten Viber,

TikTok and Twitch.

"In Europe there is no place for illegal hate, either

offline or online. I welcome the stakeholders' commitment to a

strengthened Code of conduct under the Digital Services Act

(DSA)," EU tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen said in a

statement.

The DSA requires tech companies to do more to combat illegal

and harmful content on their platforms. Compliance with the

updated code could impact regulators' enforcement of the Act, EU

officials said.

Under the revised code, the companies pledged to allow

not-for-profit or public entities with expertise on illegal hate

speech to monitor how they review hate speech notices, and to

assess at least two thirds of these notices received from them

within 24 hours.

The companies will also take measures, such as the use

automatic detection tools to reduce hate speech on their

platforms, and provide information on the role of recommendation

systems and the organic and algorithmic reach of illegal content

prior to its removal.

They will present country-level data broken down by the

internal classification of hate speech such as race, ethnicity,

religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.