Twitter Folds Brussels Workplace, Sparking E.U. Officers Considerations

Twitter has folded its Brussels workplace following a wave of company-wide cuts and departures. Though the Brussels workplace was small, it was perceived as a “essential conduit to European policymakers,” in keeping with the Monetary Occasions, which was first to report the information.

The final two pillars of the Brussels workplace, Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, reportedly left the corporate final week.

Mozer and La Nasa had been in control of Twitter’s digital coverage in Europe, together with the compliance to EU’s disinformation code and the Digital Companies Act, which goals to restrict the unfold of unlawful content material on-line.

The disbanding of the Brussels workplace is happening at a vital time because the Digital Companies Act got here into impact final week, and EU officers are involved that Twitter won’t abide by these new guidelines.

“I’m involved in regards to the information of firing such an enormous quantity of employees of Twitter in Europe,” Věra Jourová, the EU’s VP in control of the disinformation code, informed the Monetary Occasions.

Jourová additionally mentioned she expects “Twitter to totally respect the EU regulation and honour its commitments, (…) particularly within the context of Russian disinformation warfare.”

Different Twitter executives had been axed as a part of the main layoffs deliberate by Twitter’s new proprietor Elon Musk. Roughly every week after buying Twitter for $44 billion, Musk geared as much as lay off about half of the present workforce of roughly 7,500.

Twitter couldn’t be reached for remark because it doesn’t at the moment seem to have a media relations workforce.