EU official: ‘In Europe, birds will fly by our rules’
Amid concerns that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his stance as a “free speech absolutist” could turn Twitter into a platform for hate speech, Thierry Bretonthe Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union intervened.
In response to Musk’s tweet, he said:
He used the hashtag DSA. This is a reference to the Digital Services Act, one of his two new EU bills designed to tighten regulation of social media.
Guy VerhofstadtThe former Prime Minister of Belgium (and former Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament), who sits in the European Parliament, said:
so one man @elonmusk It currently owns the world’s largest debate…
The need for rules and accountability has never been greater.
Social media self-regulation has never worked. pic.twitter.com/h7LYYxVo4W
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) October 28, 2022
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Joan Donovan of The Guardian recently From Trump to Kanye to Musk, why the ultra-rich buy social media sites.
Tech CEOs have become the most important political gatekeepers in modern media history. Instead of running for public office, a cliché of today’s rich elite, use social media ownership as a proxy for political influence.
It’s been a trend for years. From the political bigot of former Facebook executives like Sheryl Sandberg and Joel Kaplan to Peter Thiel’s Metapolitics, the tech giant has long had internal and external strategies for doing politics by other means. has been adopted.
rapper Kanye West He’s one of those people banned from Twitter (in his case for posting a series of anti-Semitic tweets). Elon Musk.
If the entrepreneur chooses to reactivate their Twitter account, donald trump Could make a comeback with US conspiracy theorists Alex Jonesright-wing commentator Katie Hopkins and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
The Daily Telegraph has compiled a list of those likely to make a comeback.
Lunch time summary
We’ll be waiting for more news on Twitter’s deal, but here’s a rundown of other news from today.
European stock markets are on a downtrend, with the pound down 0.1% but still above $1.15.
US oil giant exxon mobil When chevron Announcing huge profits and dwarfing shellof $9.5 billion. Texas-based ExxonMobil tripled his third-quarter earnings to nearly $20 billion. appleearnings, Chevron had a profit of $11.2 billion. President Joe Biden has accused Exxon of making “more money than God” over the summer.
Analysts estimate that profits for the world’s largest oil company have surged to nearly £150 billion so far this year as Russia’s war on Ukraine pushed up energy prices.
of german economy Surprisingly, it grew 0.3% in the July-September quarter, defying recession fears. In the last quarter he achieved growth of 0.1%.
Pre-tax profit natwest group UK house prices remained flat at £1.1bn from July to September as banks forecast a 7% drop next year amid a weaker economic outlook and pressure on customers’ cost of living.
of UK’s largest gas storage site Just in time for what could be one of the toughest winters in years for energy providers trying to keep up with demand.
Kanye West says it lost $2 billion in a single day this week after losing several major partnerships over anti-Semitic comments.
The $44 billion Twitter deal is set to be announced when Wall Street opens at 2:30 p.m.
Elon Musk explains why he buys social media companies:
Musk to address Twitter staff today
Elon Musk It is expected to speak with Twitter staff later today as it seals its $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform.
Leslie BerlandBloomberg reported that Twitter’s chief marketing officer (CMO) sent a memo to employees on Wednesday saying he would be visiting the company’s headquarters this week.
“Elon has been in the SF office this week, meeting people, walking the halls, and continuing to dive into the important work you guys do,” Berland wrote in a note. It’s just the beginning of many meetings and conversations with and you’ll hear directly from him on Friday.”
According to Time magazine, Musk has threatened to cut 75% of its workforce, about 7,500 total, and a Twitter employee sent an open letter to him and the board earlier this week.
“We want transparent, prompt and thoughtful communication about working conditions,” the letter read. “We demand to be treated with dignity and not treated as mere pawns in a game played by millionaires.”
Here’s an analysis of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter by my colleagues Kari Paul and Alex Hahn.
Hate speech and misinformation experts are gearing up for Donald Trump’s return to the platform as Elon Musk completes its Twitter takeover.
Social media sites deleted Trump entirely in January 2021, saying the former president’s tweets “could encourage and inspire people to reenact the criminal acts that took place in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” Very high quality,” he said.
But Musk earlier this year called Twitter “left-leaning” and said he was rescinding its ban, and reportedly fired the person in charge on Thursday.
“I don’t think it was right to ban Donald Trump,” Tesla’s CEO said at a Financial Times conference in May. It didn’t turn out to be, and I think it’s a morally bad decision and extremely stupid.”
Elliott Higginsfounder and creative director of Belling Cata Dutch-based investigative journalism group says Twitter’s failure to self-regulate will lead to tougher government restrictions on all social media companies.
Without self-regulation on Twitter, it would only increase the likelihood that governments would regulate all social media. It’s a simple matter.
— Elliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 28, 2022
Is there an explanation for why followers are suddenly being counted when a ton of accounts have been deleted overnight?
— Elliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 28, 2022
In 2007 Bobby Johnson, a former Guardian technology correspondent in London, tried to answer the question many Britons were asking about the new US “microblogging” site. Is there any reason why I should care?
In an article in the same paper’s technical addendum (discovered by Jason Rodriguez of The Guardian’s investigative intelligence division), he said of Twitter: People living on the move”. You can read the full article here.
Ironically Debating Twitter’s Future After Acquisition By The World’s Richest Man Elon Musk is conducted on social media platforms.
american lawyer Tristan Snell Tweeted this morning:
People aren’t leaving Twitter in droves. The drop in follower count is happening in sudden chunks — this is a bot cleanup, not a real person quitting.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) October 28, 2022
EU official: ‘In Europe, birds will fly by our rules’
Amid concerns that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his stance as a “free speech absolutist” could turn Twitter into a platform for hate speech, Thierry Bretonthe Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union intervened.
In response to Musk’s tweet, he said:
He used the hashtag DSA. This is a reference to his Digital Services Act, one of his two new EU bills designed to tighten regulation of social media.
Guy VerhofstadtThe former Prime Minister of Belgium (and former Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament), who sits in the European Parliament, said:
so one man @elonmusk It currently owns the world’s largest debate…
The need for rules and accountability has never been greater.
Social media self-regulation has never worked. pic.twitter.com/h7LYYxVo4W
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) October 28, 2022
As American multimedia journalist and novelist David Leavitt puts it:
Literally hundreds of people use the N-word every minute, and there has been a massive influx of hate speech prevalent on Twitter since Elon’s purchase. pic.twitter.com/uAqnZJuwjW
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) October 28, 2022
Enter the n word or holocaust into the search bar,[最新]Click to view and report the racists that came out of the woodwork after Elon Musk bought Twitter in real time.
But does Twitter do anything about it?
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) October 28, 2022