“From September, Elon Musk will do what he is asked to do if he wants to continue to operate”, warns Thierry Breton

“From September Elon Musk will do what he is asked to do if he wants to continue operating”warned European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton, guest on Sunday April 23 of the program Political issues on France Inter/franceinfo/Le Monde. The European Commissioner has warned Twitter boss Elon Musk that the European Union will carry out “blank audits” platforms. “I’m going to do an audit” at Twitter in California, he launched.

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“I will announce this week what these systemic platforms are”, he added, specifying that between “19 and 25” will be affected. Very large online platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook or Amazon, will have to apply from September new EU legislation which came into force in November to eliminate lawless areas on the internet. In particular, the Commission services target hate speech, “respect for privacy” and misinformation.

“We will be protected from online harassment, fake news, we will be protected from a lot of things that we complain about and all the things that today, in the information space, we have the feeling that we are in a space of lawlessness.”

Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market

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“They are going to have to radically change the way they work very quickly if they want to continue to operate in Europe.“, underlined the commissioner, in charge of digital. “I am in the process of creating a team which will make ‘descents’ when it deems it necessary to do so in the event of a problem with such or such platform”, said Thierry Breton. This team will bring together “a hundred specialists”, according to him.