A senior EU official warned Twitter CEO Elon Musk about “red lines” and potential “sanctions” after the platform suspended a large number of journalists who write about him and Twitter.
According to Vra Jourová, vice president of the European Commission for values and transparency, the EU’s Digital Services Act requires “respect for media freedom and fundamental rights” and the Media Freedom Act strengthens this.
“@elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” she added
Jourová published her article on Thursday after the accounts of reporters for media outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, and Voice of America were suspended. Musk claimed on Twitter that journalists were disseminating “assassination coordinates”—private information about his location—but he gave no evidence to support this claim.
Musk suspended an account on Wednesday that automatically tracked the location of his private jet using publicly available information, and the journalists whose accounts were suspended were covering this suspension.
Musk validated the suspensions by tweeting on Thursday that “same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else, Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”
Musk did a poll of his Twitter followers on Friday to determine whether the accounts should be unfrozen immediately or after seven days.
He published one on Thursday that allowed users to select “now,” “tomorrow,” “seven days from now,” or “longer.” Even though the majority selected “now,” Musk stated that there were too many options and that he would conduct another poll.
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