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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Musk says he's 'aligned' with EU approach to digital rules

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Elon Musk, who is offering to buy Twitter, has given his support to a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met with the bloc's single market chief.

EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he outlined to Musk how the bloc’s online regulations aim to uphold free speech while also making sure whatever is illegal “will be forbidden in the digital space,” which Musk “fully agreed with.”

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