EU trade chief Thierry Breton will meet Tesla boss Elon Musk in Texas on Monday to debate international provide chain points and the bloc’s newly agreed guidelines requiring tech giants to do extra to police on-line content material, Breton’s spokesperson stated.
The assembly comes weeks after the world’s richest man clinched a deal to purchase social media firm Twitter for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,40,400 crore) in money.
The 2 will meet at 1900 GMT (12:30am IST on Tuesday) in Austin, the place the brand new headquarters for Musk’s electrical carmaker Tesla is positioned.
“Tech and provide chains might be excessive on the agenda at Tesla with Elon Musk,” Terence Zakka, spokesperson for Breton, stated in an electronic mail.
“Free speech may even be on the menu between Thierry Breton and Elon Musk. So will EU regulation. Count on alternate on the Digital Providers Act and the way ‘new’ Twitter will play by European guidelines,” he stated.
Musk secured the deal to purchase Twitter final month with a pledge to revitalise the corporate and broaden 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 referred to as the Digital Providers Act tackling unlawful on-line content material.
In his newest announcement concerning Twitter, Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder stated he would considerably improve work ethic requirements in Twitter as soon as he formally acquires the social media platform.
“Work ethic expectations could be excessive, however a lot lower than I demand of myself,” Musk stated on Twitter on Friday.
The corporate might be “tremendous centered on hardcore software program engineering, design, data safety and server {hardware},” he added.
Musk beforehand stated that he wish to revolutionize Twitter’s position in public debate as “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital city sq. the place issues important to the way forward for humanity are debated.”
