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Twitter and the toothless EU

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Published: December 21st, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

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When Twitter changed its terms of service late last week, it was followed almost simultaneously by the suspension of several journalists’ accounts. Elon Musk sees his privacy violated by tweeting the data of his private plane. Musk’s plane is equipped with a publicly trackable identifier like all civilian aircraft. But the eccentric multi-billionaire and Twitter owner unceremoniously had the platform’s rules of use changed. And he did so in such a way that tweets about his plane would be inadmissible. Musk allegedly wanted to make it more difficult for stalkers to follow his family.

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