Twitter’s ‘Brave’ Stance on Trump Mirrors EU Plan, Jourova Says

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Twitter Inc. took a “brave” stance to label some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets that echoes European Union’s ideas for fighting disinformation online, according to one of the architects of the EU proposals.

Twitter “did on American territory and vis-a-vis the American president what we are thinking about in Europe,” European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova told Bloomberg TV’s Matt Miller and Anna Edwards on Friday.