The European Commission has launched proceedings against Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
“Today’s opening of formal proceedings against X makes it clear that, with the DSA, the time of big online platforms behaving like they are ‘too big to care’ has come to an end,” declared EU Commissioner Thierry Breton.
“We will now start an in-depth investigation of X’s compliance with the DSA obligations concerning countering the dissemination and amplification of illegal content and disinformation in the EU, transparency of the platforms and design of the user interface,” the Frenchman added.
Previously, Breton warned Musk “you can run but you can’t hide” when he ditched a supposedly voluntary EU code of conduct. This had required the South African to boost so-called “authoritative sources” and “empower the fact-checking community”.
