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Moderation at twitter has reportedly been greatly reduced, and just last month, the bbc found hundreds of russian and chinese state propaganda accounts to be highly active on twitter. lets break this down. we want to bring in takara small, she is a technologyjournalist, joining us from toronto. first of all, elon musk has taken twitter out of what is a voluntary eu disinformation code. why would he do that? i think it plays along with a lot of things that elon has done in recent months and the r...

Twitter has pulled out of the european unions voluntary code to fight disinformation, the eu has said. the eus internal market commissioner, thierry breton, announced the news on the platform. breton tweeted: "obligations remain. you can run, but you cant hide". he added that fighting disinformation will remain a legal obligation under the digital services act, a law which obliges firms to do more to tackle illegal online content. dozens of tech firms are signed up to the eus disinformation code...

Lets break this down now and bring in technologyjournalist takara smalljoining us from toronto. elon musk is taking twitter out of what is a voluntary eu disinformation code. why would he do that? i think it plays along with a lot of things that elon has done in recent months and the reason he did that is because he doesnt really feel the need to implement some of the rules that will become essentially legal under the digital services act. and he has allowed a lot of the things such as misinform...

Yet on the table, no—deal announced, that was republican negotiator patrick mchenry and capitol hill earlier today. twitter has pulled out of the european union�*s voluntary code to fight disinformation, the eu has said. the eu�*s internal market commissioner, thierry breton, announced the news on the platform. breton tweeted: "obligations remain. you can run, but you can�*t hide". he added that fighting disinformation will remain a legal obligation under the digital services act, a law ...

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The first batch of reports by tech giants, adtech entities and others on how they're tackling online disinformation in the European Union since a strengthened Code of Practice was unveiled last year have been published.

When buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised to make the social network transparent, but now it is clear that this will have its price.

Of eu digital policy left the company last week. theyd been leading efforts to comply with a new eu law which aims to keep users safe online. elon musk took over in october. he marked the moment by carrying a kitchen sink into the headquarters in san francisco. its fair to say it hasnt been that smooth. since this moment, hes fired almost 3,800 workers — thats almost half of the workforce. we know that the brussels office was impacted in addition to the two executives. the ft also reports "oth...

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