Twitter’s withdrawal from disinformation code draws ire of EU politicians

By Linnea Ahlgren

Following a decision to pull Twitter out of the EU’s (voluntary) disinformation Code of Practice last week, the reactions have not been long in coming. Upon receiving the news, the bloc’s industry chief Thierry Breton said that Twitter would still need to abide by EU rules soon enough. Or, as Monsieur Breton put it (tweeted, in fact) when referring to the Digital Services Act (DSA), which will make fighting disinformation a legal obligation from 25 August, “You can run, but you cannot hide.”  Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain. You can run but you…

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