Elon Musk accuses Election Commission of offering deal in exchange for censorship

Elon Musk’s rise to power at Twitter happened in 2022, a few months after he acquired the company for about $44 billion. The closing of the deal took longer than expected, as the businessman began to complain about the number of bots on the platform and even waged a legal battle against it. In the end he took over Twitter, threw most of the employees out on the street and started calling it X European Union (EC) to put forward a proposal. The secret agreement that other platforms acceptedBut not X, because he doesn’t want to be censored.

Elon Musk is the founder of companies known as
Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink

and others, while on the other hand, he has also been known to buy Twitter in 2022. Changes to X, adding more advertising, the existence of subscription plans to eliminate these ads or the implementation of chatbots Let’s GrokThese are some of the changes that have been decided during this period.

Elon Musk accused the European Commission of presenting him with a deal where he would not receive fines in exchange for censoring information.

Elon Musk’s arrival at the helm of X was not received very well, neither by the users, nor by the companies or the regulatory bodies. One of the first things Musk did as soon as he took over the social network was to fire the entire management team and also fired most of the employees. Later, we saw how he also eliminated the moderation team and replaced it with volunteers and automated moderation tools. All this did not go unnoticed and the European Union threatened the businessman that it could Close Twitter if you don’t follow the rules

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In December 2023, European Commissioner Thierry Breton launched an investigation into X’s non-compliance with DSA rules, the European Commission was prepared to remove X if this was not met and now we are seeing that Elon Musk has revealed that he offered him and other platforms a “secret deal.” This is based on the fact that in exchange for censoring informationThey will not receive the fine that was imposed on them for breaking the rules.

The EU could fine exporters up to 6% of their annual global revenue

According to Elon Musk, this European Commission agreement was directed at the main platforms, so if this is true, we can imagine that they were also in charge of moderating the content. Instagram one of two TIC Toc.
The truth is that Musk often talks about the censorship of other media and how X has more freedom of expression, so this could be another message from him to defend his platform and, in the process, confront the European Union. This has happened at a time when the European Commission has completed its preliminary investigation and mentioned that X uses “Dark Patterns”

To deceive users.

Another conclusion reached with the platform is that it raises doubts about it Transparency advertising and access to data. The European Commission believes there are verified account that they really are
“Malicious Actor”, So they end up cheating users. This doesn’t look good for Elon Musk and X, because if the EU makes a decision the company will receive a fine of up to 6% of its annual revenue.