Photo: AP/Kiichiro SatoThe EU has warned Musk that he could face a total Twitter ban in Europe or fines of up to six percent of global revenue if he does not comply with the law
Weeks after leaving the European Union's anti-disinformation code, Twitter owner Elon Musk said the social network would comply with its new laws on fake news, Russian propaganda and online crime, the Guardian reports.
The decision came after a team of officials from the European Commission entered the company's European headquarters to conduct an exercise with Twitter staff and test its controls on disinformation and other criminal activity, including child sexual exploitation.
The commissioner responsible for implementing the new law, Terry Breton, took to social media to say that the EU would act swiftly and decisively.
"When it comes to online crime, there can be no half measures." Very large internet platforms must put in place the necessary internal controls and resources to be ready for the new European rules."
Musk will still follow the law
When Musk left the codex, Breton warned him that he could run, but not hide. Now the EU has warned him that he could face a total ban on Twitter in Europe or fines of up to six percent of global revenue if he does not comply with the laws.
These warnings influenced the owner of Twitter, so he stated in an interview with the French television "France 2" that he will respect EU laws in the fight against misinformation and hate speech.
"If laws are passed, Twitter will follow the laws."
In an interview with "BBC", Musk claimed that now there is less misinformation on Twitter than before.
However, they do not match the situation in which the employees of that company who worked against the "information operations" of the coordinated campaigns of countries such as Russia, China and Iran, began to resign.
As they told the media, they were resigning because of the threats they began to receive from groups such as Russian trolls who support Putin's war in Ukraine.
The new laws come into effect in August
The new laws mean that forty-four companies, including Twitter, Google and Facebook, will modernize their platforms.
Harmful content such as disinformation will be removed and protocols will be put in place to prevent the spread of such content.
Companies will also need to increase transparency regarding their relationship with their users and simplify contracts with them.
Twitter and other social networks signed the voluntary code back in 2018.
In February, the European Commission published a report on how platforms implement the code and pointed out that Twitter did not provide "specific information or targeted data" related to transparency obligations.
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