by Christopher Tomlinson, The National Pulse:
Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, says that the European Union (EU) offered him a secret, “illegal” deal to quietly censor posts on the platform.
Posting on X, Musk said, “The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.”
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Musk was replying to European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager, who announced on Friday that X is not complying with the EU’s censorious Digital Services Act, and the bloc is taking legal action against it.
The Commission, a body not accountable to European voters, claims that X allows anyone to be a verified user, allowing “motivated malicious actors” to abuse verification to mislead.
The Commission also claims that X does not provide enough transparency regarding advertising and does not provide sufficient access to its data to “researchers.” Musk believes the people in question are not “researchers” but “political operatives” whose goal is “to force X to restaff the censorship squad fired when Elon took over.”
The EU began investigating X in December of 2023, and it could be the first platform to fall foul of the DSA. Musk faces multi-million dollar fines from the EU for violating the DSA.
“We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth,” the tech entrepreneur says.
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