EU warns Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with fake news laws

Source: The Guardian

EU warns Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with fake news laws

Musk’s X platform found to have highest proportion of disinformation posts among large social media players

Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels
@lisaocarroll
Tue 26 Sep 2023 11.29 BST
Last modified on Tue 26 Sep 2023 11.34 BST

The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk to comply with sweeping new laws on fake news and Russian propaganda, after X, formerly known as Twitter, was found to have the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms.

Facebook was the second worst offender, according to the first ever report recording posts that will be deemed illegal across the EU under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in August.

However, Facebook and other tech giants, including Google, TikTok and Microsoft, have signed up to the code of practice the EU drew up to ensure they could get ready in time to operate within the confines of the new laws.

Twitter left the code of practice but it is obliged under the new law to comply with the rules or face a ban across the EU.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/26/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-x-must-comply-with-fake-news-laws

Alternate non-walled link: EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation (archive.li)