Twitter was fined by Turkey’s antitrust regulator Monday for failing to seek its permission before Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover.
last month social media companies should allow free speech with the “least amount of censorship allowed by law… [which] varies a lot by jurisdiction” and not “try to put a thumb on the scale beyond the laws.”Musk’s acquisition of Twitter had come under antitrust scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission last year but it managed tothe agency’s review.
Some commenters had called on the FTC and the European Union to open an antitrust review into Twitter in December after the platform banned users from sharing links to competing social media platforms. However, the company managed to avoid scrutiny as itThe exact amount Twitter has to pay is unclear as the company is now privately owned and no longer publicly reports its earnings.
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