EU 'threatening to ban Twitter unless Elon Musk sticks to bloc's digital rules'

The European Union has reportedly threatened to prohibition Twitter unless Elon Musk abides by its strict contented moderation rules.

The warning, which has been reported by The Financial Times, could beryllium the commencement of a regulatory conflict implicit the aboriginal of the societal media level crossed Europe.

EU manufacture main Thierry Breton made the menace during a video gathering with Musk connected Wednesday, the quality outlet said, citing radical with cognition of the conversation.

Breton told the world's richest antheral helium indispensable adhere to a checklist of rules which are acceptable retired successful the EU's caller Digital Services Act.

According to the report, these see a request to ditch an "arbitrary" attack to reinstating banned users and to hold to an "extensive autarkic audit" of the level by adjacent year.

Musk completed his $44bn (£38bn) Twitter takeover backmost successful October and has since made immoderate arguable decisions regarding the moving of the site.

The Tesla billionaire made headlines aft sacking astir fractional of the company's 8,000 workers, including 15% of the spot and information department.

He besides reinstated antecedently banned accounts connected the platform, including the 1 belonging to Donald Trump aft conducting a Twitter canvass asking users if they wanted to spot him return.