European Commission commissioner Thierry Breton, who is responsible for internal control and ammunition supplies to Ukraine, threatened Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, with sanctions. SIA reports that the social network “Twitter” owned by an American businessman has decided to withdraw from the EU’s voluntary control code against online disinformation. Although the Code is still voluntary, the European Commission intends to give it the status of Law.
Brussels issued a statement on Saturday threatening European Commissioner Musk: Twitter is leaving the EU’s voluntary code to combat disinformation. You can run, but you can’t hide. From August 25, the fight against disinformation will be mandatory in the EU under the Digital Services Act. Our teams will be ready to apply the law,” he said.
Breton has not yet decided what the sanctions will be for violating this law.
It should be noted that the existing voluntary EU code for combating disinformation requires social media operators to independently remove content that contradicts the guidelines of Western structures that they consider wrong.
