Europe’s prime official for implementing digital regulation warned Twitter boss Elon Musk on Wednesday that he should do extra to battle disinformation with a view to adjust to EU legislation.

The EU commissioner for the interior market, Thierry Breton, held a video name with Musk and advised him “there is still huge work ahead” to carry the platform in step with Brussels’ guidelines.

Breton posted a quick, silent video clip of his videoconference on Musk’s platform Twitter, however adopted it up with a hyperlink to an extended assertion on the rival Mastodon community.

“I welcome Elon Musk’s statements of intent to get Twitter 2.0 ready for the DSA,” Breton mentioned, referring to the EU Digital Services Act, Brussels’ overarching web legislation

“But let’s also be clear that there is still huge work ahead,” he mentioned.

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“Twitter will have to implement transparent user policies, significantly reinforce content moderation and protect freedom of speech, tackle disinformation with resolve and limit targeted advertising.”

Musk didn’t straight reply to Breton’s put up however in a separate tweet responding to a different person, he agreed that underneath earlier administration Twitter had “failed in trust and safety for a very long time”.

“Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed,” he promised.

The DSA was handed final yr and can enter into drive subsequent yr after tech giants have had time to adjust to stricter European orders to take away dangerous or intentionally deceptive content material.

Firms which might be discovered to not be in compliance face fines of as much as six % of their world turnover or perhaps a ban on working within the European Union, an enormous market of greater than 440 million individuals.

Tech firms lobbied EU policymakers closely earlier than the legislation handed however most say they are going to attempt to adjust to the foundations — although Musk’s behaviour since shopping for Twitter final month has raised alarm.

A self-described “free speech absolutist”, Musk has already sacked most of the Twitter workers tasked with content material moderation and sustaining ties with Brussels’ regulators.

He has additionally begun to permit Twitter customers banned from the platform for posting disinformation, resembling former US president Donald Trump, to return.

On Wednesday, it emerged that Twitter has additionally stopped implementing a rule stopping customers from sharing deceptive details about Covid-19 and vaccine effectiveness.

Such strikes characterize crimson flags for Brussels, anxious to know whether or not a big and influential platform like Twitter will fall into line with the DSA.

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“I am pleased to hear that he has read it carefully and considers it as a sensible approach to implement on a worldwide basis,” Breton mentioned in his on-line assertion.

But he adopted up with 5 Mastodon posts laying out the guidelines for platforms to satisfy DSA guidelines.

These embrace bolstered content material moderation, measures to deal with disinformation, clear guidelines towards the manipulation of social media content material and a restrict on focused promoting.

Finally, it warns Silicon Valley giants to be ready for a European audit of their procedures.