{"id":12183,"date":"2022-12-17T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/eu-warns-of-sanctions-as-twitter-ban-journalists"},"modified":"2022-12-17T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:53:45","slug":"eu-warns-of-sanctions-as-twitter-ban-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/eu-warns-of-sanctions-as-twitter-ban-journalists","title":{"rendered":"EU warns of sanctions as Twitter ban journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>The EU on Friday threatened Twitter owner Elon Musk with sanctions after the accounts of several journalists were suspended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying,&#8221; Vera Jourova, the vice president of the European Commission for values and transparency, said on Twitter, and warned that the EU&#8217;s Digital Services Act \u201crequires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elon Musk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,&#8221; Jourova, the vice-president for values and transparency, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the German Foreign Ministry tweeted screenshots of the accounts of journalists suspended by Twitter and said that the ministry has a \u201cproblem\u201d with moves that undermine press freedom<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Press freedom cannot be switched on and off on a whim,&#8221; the ministry wrote. &#8220;The journalists below can no longer follow us, comment and criticise. We have a problem with that, @Twitter,&#8221; the ministry wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists for the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN were among those locked out of their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Services Act, which is currently going through the EU Parliament, is set to be in force by 2023. 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The EU on Friday threatened Twitter owner Elon Musk with sanctions after the accounts of several journalists were suspended. &#8220;News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying,&#8221; Vera Jourova, the vice president of the European Commission for values and transparency, said on Twitter, and warned that the EU&#8217;s Digital Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[242,243,233],"class_list":["post-12183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eritrea","tag-eritrea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EU warns of sanctions as Twitter ban journalists - 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