Acquiring Twitter for 44 billion dollars, Elon Musk, along with senior EU commission member Thierry Breton, set strict rules for technology companies, especially social media platforms of the European Union. They met to discuss the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The law, which is expected to come into force in 2024, is especially harmful to the terror circulating on social media, sexual abuse of children, hate speech, etc. It foresees the prevention of content and imposing obligations on companies at this point. Companies will be fined up to 6 percent of their global annual revenues for non-compliance with the rules.
Elon Musk did not object to the Digital Services Law
The Digital Services Law, which is based on the principle that illegal content in real life is also considered illegal on social media, was also on Elon Musk’s agenda.
EU commissioner Thierry Breton said, “I am happy to announce to you our new regulation in Europe, DSA. And I think you understand very well now.” After saying that, Musk conveyed his ideas as follows:
It fully coincides with the thought in my head. Anything my companies can do will be beneficial for Europe, and that’s what we want to do.
Europe takes the helm with new law
Digital With the Services Act, the era in which social media platforms set their own removal policies is coming to an end. As Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, stated, content that is considered illegal under the DSA will be stopped from spreading online.
Some of the obligations imposed on social media platforms are as follows:
- Targeted numbers based on a person’s sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity are prohibited.
- Major platforms like Facebook will make the working of recommendation algorithms transparent to users.
- Major online platforms will provide researchers with important data to ‘give more insight into how online risks are evolving’.
- Major platforms will have to introduce new strategies to deal with misinformation during the crisis.
- Online platforms and hosting services should clearly explain why they are removing illegal content and allow users to object to the takedown.
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