Twitter has been ordered to increase the number of Twitter moderators in the European Union (EU) if it wants to operate there, said a top EU regulator.
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into force on Nov. 16, will put larger Internet platforms under the bloc’s online content censorship rules.
European regulators said they are not fond of Twitter’s new flagship premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, and view the new “blue tick” feature as prone to abuse by impersonators on the platform.
The officials said they are also worried about new Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s purge of Twitter executives and staff in charge of content regulation who had a key role in dealing with the platform’s implementation of the new online censorship rules in the bloc….