EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton warned Twitter boss Elon Musk on Wednesday that he should “ significantly increase effort to comply with EU rules, during a telephone interview, risking the banning of the platform in case of non-compliance.
« Let’s be clear: there is still a lot of work to do “and Twitter will have to” significantly strengthen content moderation, protect freedom of expression and resolutely tackle disinformation “, said the commissioner to Elon Musk, according to a report of the exchange communicated to Brussels. In case of non-compliance with the rules established by the EU, the platform risks banning, according to the Financial Times.
Twitter announced on Tuesday (November 29th) the mass reinstatement of banned accounts and the end of the controversial anti-smuggling policy. “Covid misinformation”.