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The EU and Musk clashed over twitter.

 

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Elon Musk and the EU have clashed over Twit­ter’s plan to use more arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and volun­teers to help mod­er­ate his social media plat­form as the com­pany responds to strict new rules designed to police online con­tent.

Brus­sels has told the bil­lion­aire owner of Twit­ter to hire more human mod­er­at­ors and fact-check­ers to review posts on the plat­form, accord­ing to four people famil­iar with recent talks between Musk, Twit­ter exec­ut­ives and European reg­u­lat­ors.

However, it does not employ fact check­ers, unlike lar­ger rival Meta, which owns Face­book and Ins­tagram. Twit­ter has also been using volun­teer mod­er­at­ors for a fea­ture called Com­munity Notes to tackle a deluge of mis­in­form­a­tion.

Musk told EU com­mis­sioner Thi­erry Bre­ton in Janu­ary that it would lean fur­ther on its AI pro­cesses, accord­ing to people with dir­ect know­ledge of the talks. Major plat­forms, includ­ing Twit­ter, will have to fully com­ply by Septem­ber or face fines of up to 6 per cent of global rev­en­ues. Musk told Bre­ton that hir­ing would take time, but that staff would be in place to com­ply with the DSA this year.

However, since the meet­ing in Janu­ary, there have been fur­ther talks between Twit­ter and EU reg­u­lat­ors over mod­er­a­tion plans where EU offi­cials said pur­su­ing the vol­un­tary model could weed out a pro­por­tion of mis­lead­ing inform­a­tion.

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  1. Erica8 March 2023 at 16:26

    Using volunteers is an idea but the question is how many does Twitter need to weed out misleading information? I think a LOT and they won't be able to have these people in place by the deadline.

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    1. Nathaniel8 March 2023 at 16:35

      AI can be good for this but it also has times when it's really not getting it and can ban accounts that did nothing wrong.

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