Top European official: if Twitter ignores the law, penalties will 'haunt' Elon Musk

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Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president, said on Monday that regulators have stepped up scrutiny of Twitter since Elon Musk acquired the social network. Bobby Allyn/NPR

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The European Union’s competition czar has a message for Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk: We are watching you.

Since the Tesla CEO took ownership of the social network last week promising, among other changes, to loosen up rules around what people can post to Twitter, authorities in Europe have been

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