European Commissioner Thierry Breton Who Took On Big Tech, Elon Musk Resigns
deadline.comEuropean Commissioner Thierry Breton, who pursued Elon Musk over content regulation on social media site platform X, has resigned from his role, accusing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of acting against him.
Breton was the European commissioner for the internal market for five years from December 2019, in a role that gave him oversight of the smooth and fair running of the European single market, both physical and digital.
In the latter part of this term, he had been at the forefront of enacting Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which was introduced in 2022 with the aim of creating a level playing field in Europe’s digital market in the face of big tech giants, as well as to moderate illegal content and disinformation.
Von der Leyen is in the process of appointing a new European Commission, having been renewed in her role for a second term in July, following European Parliamentary elections in June, in which her European People’s Party won the most seats.
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