BRUSSELS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The European Commission

will hold a stress test with large social media platforms next

week to see whether they have done enough to counter

disinformation in the run-up to next month's German election, an

EU spokesperson said on Friday.

Microsoft ( MSFT ), TikTok, LinkedIn, Google, Snap, Meta and X will

participate in the test on Jan. 31, meant to see whether they

have enough safeguards in place to mitigate risks on their

platforms, as they are obliged to do under the Digital Services

Act (DSA).

"The stress test is really going through potential scenarios

where DSA comes into play and to check with platforms how they

would react to these specific scenarios," spokesperson Thomas

Regnier told a press briefing.