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Exceptional guest of the 8 p.m. newspaper of France 2 on Monday, the boss of the social network spoke about the possible regulations to come.
Twitter “will obey the law” European Union intended to fight against disinformation and hatred online, assured the controversial boss of the social network, Elon Musk, in an interview broadcast Monday, June 19, during the 8 p.m. newspaper of France 2.
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“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 about the new EU legislation on digital services (DSA), during an interview recorded on Friday on the sidelines of the VivaTech show in Paris.
“The Will of the People”
The DSA (Digital Services act), which will come into force on August 25, must in particular require platforms to act “promptly” to remove any illegal content and provides for fines of up to 6% of their global turnover. . At the end of May, Musk removed Twitter from the EU’s code of practice on disinformation, a series of voluntary commitments launched in 2018.
European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova then lamented that Twitter chose “the confrontation”, while French Digital Minister Jean-Noël Barrot threatened to “ban” 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 “cursor on what is 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”.