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Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In recent weeks Elon Musk has suggested Twitter could stop being accessible in Europe in order to avoid new regulation enacted by the European Commission.
The Tesla billionaire, who acquired Twitter, now called X, a year ago for $44 billion, has discussed simply removing the app's availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, the person said.
"That's part of the reason he gutted international teams the first chance he got," one of the people familiar said, referring to some of the thousands of employees Musk has laid off or fired since taking over the company.
A winnowing down of Twitter's international presence came up again earlier this year, when Musk decided to close nearly all of the company's roughly two dozen global offices, including most in Europe and India, as well as those in Australia, Africa, and South Korea.
Although Musk has yet to pull X out of any country, essentially no employees remain in Europe, one of the people said, as offices in Paris, Madrid, and Berlin are closed.
Although Musk has met at least twice this year with Commissioner Breton about what X needs to do to comply with the DSA, he's lost patience with the situation, one of the people familiar said.
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