“With great audience comes greater responsibility”

With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA

As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in 🇪🇺 in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk

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— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) August 12, 2024

The EU’s internal market chief Thierry Breton has urged X owner Elon Musk to comply with legal obligations under the EU’s digital rulebook hours before the billionaire interviewed US Republican candidate Donald Trump live on his platform.

In the letter, published on X, Breton says that Musk has a “legal obligation” to ensure that “all proportionate and effective mitigation measures are put in place regarding the amplification of harmful content in connection with relevant events, including live streaming.”

Failure to put such measures in place could “increase the risk profile of X and generate detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security,” Breton added.

The bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) classifies X and 24 other platforms as ‘very large’ online platforms or search engines, requiring them to comply with the most stringent of the EU’s digital regulations.

It has led to tensions between the US billionaire and the EU’s internal market chief Breton, who has been nominated by French President Emmanuel Macron to serve a second term in Brussels.

Musk announced he was suing the European Commission in July after the EU executive accused him of breaching the DSA through a lack of transparency in the so-called ‘blue check’ verification programme.

“Be our guest,” was Breton’s response in July. “See you (in court or not),” he added.

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