The European Union (EU) is launching a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X — formerly Twitter — because it is not censoring content sufficiently.
The European Union (EU) is launching a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X — formerly Twitter — because it is not censoring content sufficiently.
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) went into effect in August, and it punishes “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) for hosting content that includes “disinformation” with penalties of up to 6% of their annual revenue. The EU is looking into X’s lack of censorship of “illegal content” and “disinformation,” as well as its advertising practices, according to the Monday announcement.
“We will now start an in-depth investigation of X’s compliance with the DSA obligations concerning countering the dissemination and amplification of illegal content and disinformation in the EU, transparency of the platforms and design of the user interface,” EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton stated in the announcement.
