Twitter may opt to voluntarily remove itself from the European Union’s code of Practice as it feels it needs to do a better job at handling disinformation.
For those who might be concerned, well, it does not mean that the firm is quitting Europe as confirmed by one member of the EU yesterday.
The EC was seen stepping up its game and strengthening its code in 2022 and that forced so many firms to set out some routine reports on data and how keen they were to enable advertising revenue. This had been avoided in the past due to threat actors and those spreading disinformation throughout the platform.
Such obligations entailed putting out more details on the figure of political-themed ads and even saw rejections of incidents where manipulation was observed. Now, under the leadership of Elon Musk, we’re seeing the firm put out new signs of quitting that were not seen in the past.
The effort is clearly there and it means there will no longer be any form of meetings the firm will also not be setting out any reports on the matter either.
But that does not free the firm from its legal duties and by that, we mean to say landmark tech rules that happened to be adopted depending on which code of practice had been attached.
They’re not yet moving out of the European region, another EU official said during a statement to the press. But for now, we know that the firm is remaining awfully hush on the news and not providing a lot of comments on the subject.
Violations of such rules in the tech world means costing firms huge fines that go as far as the 6% figure for the world’s turnover.
Firms that signed up for such a code included Alphabet, Meta, TikTok, and software giant Microsoft.
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For those who might be concerned, well, it does not mean that the firm is quitting Europe as confirmed by one member of the EU yesterday.
The EC was seen stepping up its game and strengthening its code in 2022 and that forced so many firms to set out some routine reports on data and how keen they were to enable advertising revenue. This had been avoided in the past due to threat actors and those spreading disinformation throughout the platform.
Such obligations entailed putting out more details on the figure of political-themed ads and even saw rejections of incidents where manipulation was observed. Now, under the leadership of Elon Musk, we’re seeing the firm put out new signs of quitting that were not seen in the past.
The effort is clearly there and it means there will no longer be any form of meetings the firm will also not be setting out any reports on the matter either.
But that does not free the firm from its legal duties and by that, we mean to say landmark tech rules that happened to be adopted depending on which code of practice had been attached.
They’re not yet moving out of the European region, another EU official said during a statement to the press. But for now, we know that the firm is remaining awfully hush on the news and not providing a lot of comments on the subject.
Violations of such rules in the tech world means costing firms huge fines that go as far as the 6% figure for the world’s turnover.
Firms that signed up for such a code included Alphabet, Meta, TikTok, and software giant Microsoft.
Read next: Twitter Tries To Regain Developers’ Trust By Launching A Costly API Tier For Startups
