2023-06-20 06:43:51
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 15 minutes ago
Elon Musk at VivaTech last Friday. GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS
“If a law is enacted, I repeat myself, Twitter undertakes to respect it,” said the owner of the social network, in an interview with France 2.
Twitter «will obey the law“European intended to fight against disinformation and hatred online, assured the controversial boss of the social network, Elon Musk, in an interview broadcast Monday evening on France 2. “Twitter will obey the law. If a law is enacted, I repeat myself, Twitter is committed to respecting it“, Hammered the billionaire in response to a question on the new EU legislation on digital services (DSA), during an interview recorded Friday on the sidelines of the VivaTech show in Paris.
The DSA (Digital Services act), which will come into force on August 25, must in particular require platforms to act “promptlyto remove any illegal content and provides for fines of up to 6% of their worldwide turnover. At the end of May, Musk pulled Twitter out of the EU’s code of practice on disinformation, a series of voluntary commitments launched in 2018. European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova went on to lament that Twitter chose “la confrontation“, while the French Minister of Digital Jean-Noël Barrot threatened to “banish» the social network.
«We are not going to be more royalist than the king» and exceed «legal provisions” in terms of censorship and freedom of expression, tempered the boss of Tesla and Space X, citing the difficulty of placing the “slider on good or bad, acceptable» or not. «On the other hand, if a law is promulgated, because the law in a democracy represents the will of the people (…) it must be respected».
Advertisers back on Twitter, says Musk
Asked about the mass layoffs among Twitter teams since its takeover in the fall, “we have not reduced moderation activity per se. Moderation is carried out by about 4000 collaborators (…) and the work has remained about the same“, assured Elon Musk, even evoking a “diminutionof hate speech, contradicted by some studies. “Almost all advertisers returned or said they would returnafter leaving the platform since its takeover, he further claimed, stating that “the essentialfor his business was to nothave no losses» financial.
Signatory of a petition calling for a six-month pause in research on generative artificial intelligences because of their risks for humanity, the businessman pleaded for “to slow down» the AI and not the «Stop“. The man who founded X.AI, a new company specializing in this field, in March, also prefers to be a “participant” one “observer».
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