According to EU authorities, the platform has until August 25 to comply with the EU’s new disinformation law, otherwise the platform will be banned across the EU.
French Minister for Digital Transformation and Telecoms Jean-Noël Barrot said on Monday Twitter would be banned across the EU if it failed to comply with new rules on disinformation. The threat comes as the Digital Services Act (DSA) is due to come into full effect on August 25. In a conversation with France info radio said Barrot:
“Disinformation is one of the biggest threats facing our democracies. I hope that Twitter will adapt to European rules by August 25. Otherwise, it will no longer be welcome in Europe. If Twitter repeatedly breaks our rules , it will no longer be allowed in the EU.”
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The DSA mandates that search engines and major platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok take action to prevent “disinformation or vote-rigging, cyber violence against women, or harm to minors online.” The European Commission can punish violations with fines of up to 6 percent of the annual global turnover.
EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton announced last week that Twitter had withdrawn from the EU’s voluntary code of conduct on disinformation.
“But the commitments remain. You can run, but you can’t hide,” Breton said, adding that the DSA terms will be “ready for execution” when the compliance deadline expires in August.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who took over Twitter last year, vowed to rid the platform of disinformation and hateful content, but also to uphold freedom of expression and provide more transparency. In early May, Musk tweeted:
“This platform aims to be the source with the fewest untrue information.”
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Earlier this month, Twitter complied with a request from the Turkish government to restrict access to some accounts in the weeks leading up to the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections. Musk defended this decision by saying he wanted to avoid Twitter being completely shut down in Turkey.
“We can’t flout the laws of a country… If we have a choice between jailing our people or obeying the law, we’re going to obey the law,” Musk told the newspaper last month BBC.
EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton announced last week that Twitter had withdrawn from the EU’s voluntary code of conduct on disinformation.
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