Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ after Spain announces sweeping social media crackdown

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced sweeping plans astatine the World Government Summit successful Dubai to clasp societal media executives criminally liable and curb level algorithms, prompting a crisp and profane effect from X proprietor Elon Musk.

Sánchez laid retired 5 measures successful a speech, with implementation acceptable to statesman adjacent week.

"Dirty Sánchez is simply a tyrant and traitor to the radical of Spain," Musk wrote connected X, utilizing an explicit insult and a poop emoji.

Sánchez framed the proposals by describing societal media arsenic a lawless integer ecosystem, arguing that platforms person go a "failed state" wherever disinformation, hatred code and transgression enactment flourish without accountability.

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Sánchez besides appeared to instrumentality purpose astatine Musk directly, criticizing the X proprietor for amplifying what helium described arsenic mendacious claims astir Spain’s migration argumentation and allowing harmful contented to dispersed connected the platform.

"Just past week, the proprietor of X, a migrant himself, utilized his idiosyncratic relationship to amplify disinformation astir the sovereign determination by my government, the regularization of 500,000 migrants that live, enactment and lend to the occurrence of our country," Sánchez said.

Under the plan, Spain would archetypal amend its laws to clasp level executives criminally liable for failing to region amerciable oregon hateful content, exposing executives to imaginable prosecution.

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Elon Musk called Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez a "traitor" and "tyrant." (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Sánchez said governments indispensable halt turning "a unsighted oculus to the toxic contented shared nether their watch."

Second, Spain would marque the algorithmic manipulation and amplification of amerciable contented a caller transgression offense, targeting some disinformation actors and the platforms whose systems beforehand their contented for profit.

"Disinformation doesn’t look by itself," Sánchez said. "It is created, promoted and dispersed by definite actors."

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced sweeping plans to clasp societal media executives criminally liable and restrict level algorithms. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)

Third, Sánchez announced the instauration of a "hate and polarization footprint," a strategy to way and quantify however platforms substance part and dispersed hate, which would service arsenic the ground for aboriginal ineligible and fiscal penalties.

"For excessively long, hatred has been treated arsenic invisible and untraceable," Sánchez said. "Spreading hatred indispensable travel astatine a cost."

Fourth, Spain volition prohibition entree to societal media for children nether 16, requiring mandatory age-verification systems that Sánchez said indispensable relation arsenic existent barriers, not elemental cheque boxes.

"Today, our children are exposed to a abstraction they were ne'er meant to navigate alone," Sánchez said, describing societal media arsenic a realm of "addiction, abuse, pornography, manipulation [and] violence."

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Finally, Sánchez said his authorities volition enactment with nationalist prosecutors to analyse alleged violations by Grok, TikTok and Instagram, vowing zero tolerance and informing that Spain would support its integer sovereignty against overseas interference.

"We are warring back," helium said. "And we volition proceed to bash so."