– European Union threatens Elon Musk and Twitter with sanctions
Twitter’s suspension of journalists’ accounts has been called “worrying” by European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova.
European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova said on Friday that Twitter’s suspension of journalists’ accounts was “worrying”. She warned the boss of the social network, Elon Musk, that there would be “soon” “sanctions”.
“The news regarding the arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is disturbing,” the official tweeted, recalling that the Digital Services Act – which should apply to tech giants next summer – “requires compliance with freedom of the media and fundamental rights”. “Elon Musk should be aware of this. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” she said.
The German Foreign Ministry has also expressed concern. “Freedom of the press should not be turned on and off at convenience,” the ministry wrote on its Twitter account, above a screenshot of the suspended accounts. “For this reason, we have a problem with Twitter,” adds German diplomacy.
A dozen journalists
A dozen American journalists have been suspended from the social network. Among them are media workers like CNN (Donie O’Sullivan), the New York Times (Ryan Mac), the Washington Post (Drew Harwell) and independent journalists.
Some had tweeted regarding Twitter’s decision on Wednesday to suspend the account that automatically reported Elon Musk’s private jet rides.
Twitter did not say why these accounts were suspended, or how long they were suspended. The owner of the social network, a source of much controversy since he bought it in October, however gave some indications in a flurry of tweets posted overnight from Thursday to Friday.
“Accounts involved in doxing receive a temporary suspension of 7 days,” Elon Musk tweeted, indicating that these rules applied “to journalists (with quotes, editor’s note) as to anyone else “.
The term “doxing” means publicly disclosing personal information regarding an individual on the internet without their consent.
“They posted my exact real-time location, literally assassination coordinates, in direct (and obvious) violation of Twitter’s terms of service,” Musk said.
“Crazy Stalker”
At the start of this story, Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday that a car in Los Angeles with one of his children in it had been followed by “a crazy stalker”, and seemed to point to the tracking of his private jet as being the one. raison.
He announced in this tweet that he was going to sue the person behind the now suspended @ElonJet account.
Created by a student and followed by around 500,000 people, @ElonJet used public data to automatically indicate when and where the SpaceX and Tesla boss’s device took off and landed.
Twitter later communicated that its policy now banned most tweets that showed someone’s location in real time.
When he arrived at the head of Twitter, Elon Musk had promised not to touch the @ElonJet account.
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