The EU Commission has called on future Twitter owner Elon Musk to comply with the planned new rules for Internet companies in Europe.

Twitter must "fully adapt to European rules," said EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton in Brussels on Tuesday.

This applies, for example, to the fight against online bullying, child pornography or calls for attacks.

At the weekend, the EU institutions agreed on the so-called Digital Services Act (DSA), which obliges online platforms to take increased action against hate and false news in the future.

Breton emphasized that there are no comparable rules in the USA so far.

In Europe, however, this will soon be the “new reality” that Musk will also have to submit to.

The new regulation obliges large Internet companies to remove illegal content "immediately" as soon as a platform becomes aware of it.

The new rules should come into force in the EU next year, once the European Parliament and the EU states have formally sealed them.

High-tech entrepreneur Musk wants to strengthen “freedom of expression” on Twitter.

Critics fear that hate messages could increase again as a result.

The board of directors of the short message service approved the takeover bid by the Tesla founder on Monday.

It amounts to around 44 billion dollars (almost 41 billion euros).

Now enough Musk shareholders still have to sell their shares.

Musk already holds a good 9 percent, and it's enough for him to get over the 50 percent mark.

Because unlike Google or the Facebook group Meta, founders and top managers on Twitter do not hold shares with more voting rights that could secure their control over the company.

Twitter and Musk gave themselves until the end of the year to finalize the sale.

In announcing the deal on Monday, Musk promised, among other things, to "defeat spam bots and authenticate everyone."

The software algorithm that is used to select tweets that are potentially interesting for users should become public.

Above all, Musk wrote the widest possible freedom of speech on the flags.

That is only possible if the short message service leaves the stock exchange, he claimed.

Musk outlined his idea of ​​free speech as follows: "If someone you don't like can say something you don't like." Within the limits of the law, all opinions should be allowed.

Twitter with free speech is important for democracy and minimizes risks to civilization, he said.