X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk has slammed the European Union over its work with NewsGuard, an organization that is a significant component of the global internet censorship industry, calling the organization a “scam” that “ought to be disbanded.”
Musk turned his attention to NewsGuard following a post by former Trump administration official Mike Benz, exposing the European Commission’s relationship with NewsGuard, which helped revise the EU’s “code of practice on disinformation,” which calls on tech and advertising companies to financially throttle accused publishers of “disinformation.”
The European Union has aggressively used its power to advance the censorship of social media platforms, recently announcing a “disinformation” case against Meta (formerly Facebook) and TikTok, using new EU laws that can levy high fines on social media companies that don’t censor their platforms according to the bloc’s regulations.
In another post, Musk called NewsGuard a “scam” that “ought to be disbanded immediately.”
