Musk says he’s ‘aligned’ with EU approach to harmful content on social media

Elon Musk (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Elon Musk, who is offering to buy Twitter, has given his support to a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met the bloc’s single market chief.

EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he outlined to Mr Musk how the bloc’s online regulations aim to uphold free speech while also making sure whatever is illegal “will be forbidden in the digital space”, which the Tesla chief “fully agreed with”.