{"id":1778361,"date":"2022-12-17T06:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778361"},"modified":"2022-12-17T07:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T12:33:34","slug":"eu-issues-threat-to-elon-musk-after-twitter-suspends-lib-journos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-issues-threat-to-elon-musk-after-twitter-suspends-lib-journos\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Issues Threat to Elon Musk After Twitter Suspends Lib Journos"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feu-issues-threat-to-elon-musk-after-twitter-suspends-lib-journos%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778361&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The European Union on Friday warned Twitter owner CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> after the platform suspended several journalists for violating his new policy around doxxing.<\/p>\n<p>Vera Jourova, a European Commission vice president, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VeraJourova\/status\/1603689440710369281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1603689440710369281%7Ctwgr%5E8571c6091611ebf0fdc0bdf9a1bc2fdfc5e9231a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2022%2Fdec%2F16%2Ftwitter-suspends-journalists-elon-musk-reaction-politics-trump-biden-live-updates\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter that the alleged\u00a0\u201carbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying,\u201d adding that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-eu\">EU<\/a> regulatory act \u201crequires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct. @elonmusk should be aware of that,\u201d Jourova wrote. \u201cThere are red lines. And sanctions, soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jourova did not elaborate on what sanctions either Musk or Twitter will face. Under the\u00a0EU\u2019s Digital Services Act, which she cited, companies can be fined 6 percent of their global annual revenues for breaches.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, France\u2019s industry minister, Roland Lescure, wrote Friday that he would stop using his account. \u201cFollowing the suspension of journalists\u2019 accounts by @elonmusk, I am suspending all activity on @Twitter until further notice,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RolandLescure\/status\/1603683602700685313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1603683602700685313%7Ctwgr%5E8571c6091611ebf0fdc0bdf9a1bc2fdfc5e9231a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2022%2Fdec%2F16%2Ftwitter-suspends-journalists-elon-musk-reaction-politics-trump-biden-live-updates\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, one of the world\u2019s richest people, has not publicly responded to the EU\u2019s warning by Friday. The Epoch Times has contacted Twitter for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In November, EU regulators warned Musk that the social media platform could face a bloc-wide ban over its content moderation policies. A top official,\u00a0Thierry Breton, met with Musk and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/eu-warns-musk-that-twitter-faces-ban-over-content-moderation-ft-2022-11-30\/\">demanded<\/a> that Twitter adhere to EU rules around so-called hate speech and disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists who were banned include New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, former Vox reporter Aaron Rupar, CNN reporter Donie O\u2019Sullivan, and Mashable\u2019s Matt Binder. Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was also banned.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Musk, the owner of Telsa, claimed on Twitter that a masked individual followed a vehicle his son was traveling in before announcing that people who share real-time information about a user\u2019s location without their approval, or \u201cdoxxing,\u201d would be banned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCriticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not,\u201d Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It does not appear that those five accounts were permanently banned. Hours after the accounts were suspended, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1603600001057185792\">posted<\/a> a poll asking whether those accounts should be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>About 43 percent, or a plurality, said that they should be reinstated \u201cnow,\u201d while about 38 percent said those accounts should come back \u201clater.\u201d Fifteen percent said it should be a seven-day ban, while 4.5 percent said Musk should restore the accounts in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Details<\/h2>\n<p>The sudden suspension of news reporters also followed Musk\u2019s decision Wednesday to permanently suspend an account that automatically tracked the flights of his private jet using publicly available data. That also led Twitter to change its rules for all users to prohibit the sharing of another person\u2019s current location without their consent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1603600001057185792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou share the link to the real-time information, ban evasion, obviously,\u201d Musk said in a Twitter Spaces event on Thursday evening.\u00a0\u201cSharing real-time information about someone\u2019s location is inappropriate and I think everyone on this call would not like that to be done to them,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not going to be any distinction in the future between journalists or so-called journalists and regular people,\u201d Musk stated, adding, \u201cEveryone\u2019s going to be treated the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tech billionaire added, in response to several questions from journalists, that \u201cyou\u2019re not special because you\u2019re a journalist, you are just a user of Twitter [and a] citizen special treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, called for technology reporter Drew Harwell\u2019s Twitter account to be reinstated immediately. The suspension \u201cdirectly undermines Elon Musk\u2019s claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech,\u201d Buzbee wrote. \u201cHarwell was banished without warning, process or explanation, following the publication of his accurate reporting about Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0CNN said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNPR\/status\/1603579612612665344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1603579612612665344%7Ctwgr%5E8571c6091611ebf0fdc0bdf9a1bc2fdfc5e9231a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2022%2Fdec%2F16%2Ftwitter-suspends-journalists-elon-musk-reaction-politics-trump-biden-live-updates\">statement<\/a> that \u201cthe impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN\u2019s Donie O\u2019Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The network then said that it would \u201creevaluate our relationship\u201d with Twitter based on Musk\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has served as Twitter\u2019s chief executive since October after purchasing the company for $44 billion. Days after he bought the company, he reportedly terminated thousands of jobs and rolled back restrictions around speech, including the platform\u2019s policies around COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York. He covers breaking news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union on Friday warned Twitter owner CEO Elon Musk after the platform suspended several journalists for violating his new policy around doxxing.Vera Jourova, a European Commission vice president,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4249,4065,6437,9841,4250,3819,6246,4104,4253],"class_list":["post-1778361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-elon","tag-issues","tag-journos","tag-lib","tag-musk","tag-report","tag-suspends","tag-threat","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}