European Commission responds to accusations of surveillance of Musk-Weidel debate: “We are not interested in the content”

The European Commission announced today that no more than three people from its competent agency monitored the X platform system at the time of Elon Musk’s conversation with Alice Weidel and “not the content of the conversation”. “We reject all accusations of possible censorship and restriction of freedom of expression”, reiterated today during the briefing of the Commission, the representative, Paola Pino, called to comment on the accusations from the German far-right AfD. Responding to claims that 150 Commission staff watched the Musk-Weidel conversation broadcast live on “X” on the evening of February 9, Thomas Rainier, the Commission’s digital technology spokesman, denied this, saying that 150 is the total number of Euro staff working on the implementation of the EU Digital Services Regulation (DSA). To the question “how many Commission officials attended this conversation?”, T. Rainier replied that two to three people from the Commission watched the broadcast […]
Source: News Beast

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