Former EU commissioner Thierry Breton recommended in a social media put up on Tuesday {that a} “witch hunt” was going down in response to a US announcement that it will deny visas to him and several other others.
“Is McCarthy’s witch hunt again?” Breton mentioned on X.
The US State Division mentioned earlier it will deny visas to Breton, a former European tech regulator, and 4 others, accusing them of in search of to “coerce” American social media platforms into censoring viewpoints they oppose.
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Breton was described by the US State Division because the “mastermind” of the European Union’s Digital Providers Act (DSA), a serious piece of laws that imposes content material moderation and different requirements on main social media platforms working in Europe.
AFP
