EU warns Musk to remove illegal content from his platform after Hamas’ terrorist attacks.
Today, the EU has sent a formal letter to Elon Musk about X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU in the wake of the terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel. Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market, has given him 24 hours to take crisis measures and report to the European Commission. Musk seems to be completely unaware of the violent and terrorist content that appears to circulate on his platform, or he doesn’t care. This is the post of Breton and Musk’s reply: I applaud this action of the EU to protect its citizens against the risks stemming from disinformation and illegal content. In an age with a sheer limitless amount of information at our fingertips, the quest for truth can often feel like a mirage shimmering on the horizon, forever just out of reach.The platform formerly known as Twitter is nowadays riddled with misinformation, bias, and outright falsehoods. I experience that daily while trying to follow developments in complex and rapidly developing news stories such as large-scale conflicts. Discerning fact from fiction and propaganda becomes a daily challenge. For many, social media platforms, like the one we used to know as Twitter, are now the oracles of our times, dispensing news and opinions at the speed of light and in larger quantities than we could ever have imagined in our youth when we waited for the daily newspaper to arrive. But sadly, this digital oasis turns out to be swamped with the falsehoods of manipulators of the news.Twitter used to be the go-to place when a news story developed. Knowing reliable sources was a way to quickly get informed and be ahead of the formal news cycle in the traditional media. But increasingly, I find myself using Twitter to open tweets that share the latest…
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