Internet: Musk: Report about X withdrawal from Europe “completely wrong”

2023-10-19 13:31:05

Internet Musk: Report about X withdrawal from Europe “completely wrong”

The entrepreneur Elon Musk denies that he wants to withdraw from the EU with X (formerly Twitter). photo

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The tech billionaire responded promptly to a report from “Business Insider”.

Elon Musk has rejected a media report about a possible withdrawal of his online platform X (formerly Twitter) from the European Union. That was “completely wrong,” Musk wrote on the The trigger was the tech billionaire’s dissatisfaction with the DSA digital law, the website wrote on Thursday night, citing a person familiar with the company.

The DSA Act (Digital Services Act) obliges large online platforms to take consistent and quick action against, among other things, hate speech. X recently received a questionnaire from the EU Commission, which wants to know more about how the service meets its obligations. The reason was evidence of the spread of calls for violence and misinformation following the attack on Israel by the Islamist Hamas. EU Commissioner Thierry Breton referred, among other things, to reports of manipulated images and recordings from video games that were passed off as real recordings.

Musk’s reaction to X (formerly twitter)

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