{"id":1191116,"date":"2023-10-11T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191116"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:58:58","slug":"musk-argues-with-eu-commissioner-over-israel-hamas-disinformation-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191116","title":{"rendered":"Musk argues with EU commissioner over Israel\/Hamas disinformation on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/getty-x-musk-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"A smartphone displays Elon Musk's profile on X, the app formerly known as Twitter.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/getty-x-musk.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1668\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | Dan Kitwood )<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform (formerly Twitter) faces penalties under a new European law if it doesn&#8217;t take action to stop the spread of Israel\/Hamas disinformation, an EU official warned Musk yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel, we have indications that your platform is being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU,&#8221; European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton wrote in a letter to Musk. &#8220;Let me remind you that the Digital Services Act sets very precise obligations regarding content moderation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Services Act <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/04\/google-runs-5-of-the-19-platforms-that-must-follow-eus-new-internet-rules\/\">applies to large online platforms<\/a> and has requirements on content moderation and transparency. It provides for <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/QANDA_20_2348\">fines<\/a> of up to 6 percent of a provider&#8217;s annual revenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1975229#p3\">Read 18 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1975229&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1975229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk argues with EU commissioner over Israel\/Hamas disinformation on X<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Dan Kitwood ) Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform (formerly Twitter) faces penalties under a new European law if it doesn&#8217;t take action to stop the spread of Israel\/Hamas disinformation, an EU official warned Musk yesterday. &#8220;Following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1191116\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1191116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}