Musk’s ‘Bird Is Freed,’ Twitter Pledge Gets Cool Reception In EU, Where ‘The Bird Will Fly By Our Rules’
The European Commission has warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he must comply with EU rules after the billionaire acquired the social media platform, Twitter.
“In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules,” Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, wrote on Twitter on Friday morning, just hours after Musk posted that the “bird has been freed,” in reference to Twitter’s iconic logo.
Musk’s completion of the deal came just hours before a Delaware judge’s deadline to finalize the move on Friday following months of legal back-and-forth between the Tesla CEO and Twitter executives. The deal was set to go to trial if the two sides hasn’t reached an agreement by then….