A top European official warns there will be serious penalties against Elon Musk's Twitter if the platform ignores new European speech laws.
following Musk's purchase. Researchers also noted that posts on extremist forums like 4chan are encouraging people to"test the limits" of Twitter's tolerance for hate speech by posting derogatory remarks and seeing what happens.
Musk himself has already fueled a baseless conspiracy from his own Twitter account to his more than 112 million followers with a post about theIn a now-deleted tweet, Musk on Sunday wrote:"there is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye," linking to an article from the site the Santa Monica Observer, a fringe website that regularly spreads right-wing conspiracy theories.
While the new European speech rules target systemic risks to people, not problems with individual posts, Vestager said on Monday that Musk should be figuring out how Twitter can reduce the amount of harmful content the platform is exposing people to. If he fails to do so, she said, she believes people will leave Twitter for a better alternative.
"I take it for granted that if Twitter is not a good place to be, there will be another place," Vestager said.
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