Thierry Breton Archives

EU Commissioner Slams Big Tech for Not Doing ‘Enough’ to Censor French Riots

European Union (EU) Commissioner Thierry Breton has slammed Big Tech companies for allowing the public to view some information regarding the recent riots in France. Breton blasted social media platforms for failing to "do enough" to censor posts regarding the French riots. The EU commissioner’s recent critique of social media…

EU Threatens Elon Musk over ‘Disinformation’ on Twitter

The European Union (EU) has issued a threat to Elon Musk over Twitter's failure to comply with demands to censor so-called "disinformation" on the platform. The threat was made by the European Union’s Internal Markets Commissioner, Thierry Breton. Breton confirmed that Twitter had ditched the EU’s code of practice on…

EU Complains Twitter Not Interested in Complying with Censorship Demands

Officials in the European Union (EU) are complaining that Elon Musk's Twitter appears to have no interest in complying with the bloc's censorship demands. EU authorities have raised concerns that Twitter doesn’t seem to be taking the European Commission’s fight against “disinformation” seriously. According to the governing body, Twitter produced…

EU Commissioner Ramps Up Pressure on Elon Musk to Censor Twitter

European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton is demanding that Twitter boss Elon Musk complies with the EU and agrees to censor his recently acquired social media platform. Breton told Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU's censorship rules in the next few months. Eurocrats are concerned that Musk's…

EU Bureaucrats Threaten to Ban Twitter Unless Elon Musk Complies with Strict Censorship Rules

The European Union has threatened to ban Twitter unless Elon Musk complies with the bloc's strict rules on content moderation and agrees to censor users. EU bureaucrats issued the threat during a videoconference today with Musk, Twitter's new owner and CEO. Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing…

EU Warns Elon Musk: We ‘Control’ Censorship – ‘Hate Speech Is Over’

A top European Union official has warned Elon Musk that his efforts to end censorship on Twitter will be futile because the EU supposedly "controls" online content and the bloc has decided that "hate speech is over." The warning was issued by European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton.…