EU threatens Musk with Twitter ban as firm defends new approach to moderation
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A European regulator today reportedly threatened Elon Musk with a continent-wide ban on Twitter if the company fails to enforce content moderation rules required by the Digital Services Act. Also today, Twitter claimed it hasn't changed any policies-even though it stopped enforcing rules against COVID misinformation.
"As we carry out this work, we want to assure you of a few things: First, none of our policies have changed," Twitter wrote in a blog post titled, "Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conversation."
Twitter made this claim just a week after the major reversal in how it handles COVID misinformation. "Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy," Twitter said. We wrote about the change yesterday.