EU industry chief Breton to meet Elon Musk on free speech, chips, batteries

Brussels: EU business chief Thierry Breton will meet Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk in Texas on Monday to debate world provide chain points and the bloc’s newly agreed guidelines requiring tech giants to do extra to police on-line content material, Breton’s spokesman mentioned.

The assembly comes weeks after the world’s richest man clinched a deal to purchase social media firm Twitter Inc for $44 billion in money.

The 2 will meet at 1900 GMT/1400 CST in Austin, the place the brand new headquarters for Musk’s electrical carmaker Tesla is situated.

“Tech and provide chains shall be excessive on the agenda at Tesla with Elon Musk,” Terence Zakka, spokesman for Breton, mentioned in an electronic mail.

“Free speech will even be on the menu between Thierry Breton and Elon Musk. So will EU regulation. Count on trade on the Digital Providers Act and the way ‘new’ Twitter will play by European guidelines,” he mentioned.

Musk secured the deal to purchase Twitter final month with a pledge to revitalise the corporate and increase the variety of customers by cracking down on spam bots and decreasing the quantity of moderation to facilitate extra “free speech”.

The billionaire’s feedback prompted a rejoinder from Breton that Twitter should adjust to new EU guidelines often known as the Digital Providers Act tackling unlawful on-line content material.

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