EU Commissioner Věra Jourová Threatens X Over “Disinformation” and Tells Big Tech “We Expect More”

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. While declaring that it wants to combat, among other kinds, “pro-Kremlin disinformation,” the EU is acting suspiciously, and ironically, like the Kremlin of yore: there are arbitrary accusations flying around against (this time social) media, and of course, there are threats. One by one, major platforms are getting under fresh pressure from the bloc that recently adopted wide-ranging “anti-disinformation” rules for platforms: Facebook/Meta was first, Apple is “on the list” as well, and, of course, Elon Musk’s iteration of Twitter, X. EU Commissioner Věra Jourová has issued a warning to Musk in true Big Brother fashion: “We will be watching what you do.” At the same time, Jourová accused X of being the worst offender among major social sites when it comes to “ratio of disinformation.” And, Big Tech as a whole has been told to “do more” in terms of censoring what the EU considers disinformation, relevant to the war in Ukraine (but, it seems, only that coming from the Russian side in the conflict). All this is happening as the EU official presented “an update” on how the 44 platforms who signed its code of practice on disinformation are doing in complying with it. Unlike Facebook, Google, TikTok, Microsoft, advertisers, etc, X is not among the signatories, which explains the need to “remind” the company that it is still a subject of EU’s tight control. X for its part is aware of…EU Commissioner Věra Jourová Threatens X Over “Disinformation” and Tells Big Tech “We Expect More”