Why EU worries about Twitter’s new content moderation rule

Some members of the European Union’s leadership are warning that billionaire Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. will struggle to follow the continent’s content moderation rules in the months leading up to its first deadline.

“Twitter is falling short of its commitments to the anti-disinformation Code,” Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said via Twitter on Wednesday. She was responding to an Associated Press news story that disinformation spread by authoritarian regimes is gaining more traction on the website because of changes to the way it polices content.

Jourova’s comments came a day after the European Commission said Twitter is one of 19 groups that will fall under its strictest content-moderation rules.