Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks
Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks
European Commissioner Thierry Breton and the UK’s Michelle Donelan want Elon Musk to get a grip on gruesome Israel attack videos posted on X.
Elon Musk has until the end of Wednesday to respond to demands from Brussels to remove graphic images and disinformation linked to the violence in Israel from his social network X — or face the full force of Europe's new social media rules.
Thierry Breton, the European Union commissioner who oversees the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules, wrote to the owner of X, formerly Twitter, to warn Musk of his obligations under the bloc's content rules.
If Musk fails to comply, the EU's rules state X could face fines of up to 6 percent of its revenue for potential wrongdoing. Under the regulations, social media companies are obliged to remove all forms of hate speech, incitement to violence and other gruesome images or propaganda that promote terrorist organizations.
Since Hamas launched its violent attacks on Israel on October 7, X has been flooded with images, videos and hashtags depicting — in graphic detail — how hundreds of Israelis have been murdered or kidnapped. Under X's own policies, such material should also be removed immediately.
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Honestly, they're just going to post it somewhere else, just like Wagner did for the Ukraine atrocities. Getting it off of X isn't going to make the problem disappear.
Except it does matter if it's on Twitter or on a lesser-known platform. Propaganda works when it is widely publicized and doesn't work as well when it isn't.
Twitter still has a responsibility before the law to deal with this kind of stuff and it doesn't follow that.
Maybe not, but those sites have way less of a userbase
Yeah but no one cares if it's on 4chan. You expect it.
4chan also has like 1% of the user base