“There’s a lot of work ahead.” These are the duties Twitter must fulfill to comply with the new EU Digital Services Act (DSA). Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for Internal Market, told the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, with whom he had a video call this Wednesday. The meeting comes a month after Breton tweeted directly at Musk as he took the social network by storm.
According to sources close to Breton, following a May 9 meeting in which Elon Musk promised new EU legislation, the commissioner and Twitter’s CEO this Wednesday discussed preparing the company to meet the EU’s new digital requirements. Service Law.
Commissioner Breton told Elon Musk, according to community sources, that Twitter will have to significantly increase its efforts to comply with DSA: “I welcome Elon Musk’s announcements to prepare Twitter 2.0 for DSA. I’m glad you’ve read the standard carefully and think it’s a sensible approach to implement globally.”
“But let’s also be clear that there’s still a lot of work to do,” Breton said, “because Twitter will need to have transparent user policies, significantly strengthen content moderation and protect free speech, crack down on misinformation, and limit targeted advertising.” All this requires sufficient artificial intelligence and human resources, both in volume and skill.
During the meeting, Musk and Breton agreed that European Commission services will conduct a stress test at Twitter’s headquarters in early 2023, giving Twitter the opportunity to comply with the rules before the legal deadline and prepare for an independent audit. Provided by DSA.
The Digital Services Act (DSA), which comes into force in November 2022, creates comprehensive new obligations for online platforms to mitigate harm and counter risk.
“As a single, unified set of rules created for the EU, these rules will provide new protection for consumers and legal security for companies in the single market,” explains Brussels: “Companies face fines in case of non-compliance. Up to 6% of global turnover and even a ban on operating in the EU single market in case of repeated serious violations”.
Source: El Diario
