Sources: Elon Musk disbands Twitter’s Brussels team, sparking compliance concern among EU officials after policy executives departed the small but vital office (Financial Times)

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Audio: citing security, Meta execs privately told rights groups that a decision “at the highest levels” prevented a more detailed report on hate speech in India  —  Executives at the Facebook parent privately shared with rights groups their disappointment about the sparse report, according to audio recordings

Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Digital Youth Index study: young LGBTQ+ people in the UK are more than twice as likely to face hate speech online compared to those identifying as heterosexual  —  Digital Youth Index study finds minority groups also more likely to feel being online has had negative impact

New York Times:
A look at Germany’s hate speech laws, more restrictive than other Western countries, as 1,000+ are charged or punished since 2018 for online speech crimes  —  Battling far-right extremism, Germany has gone further than any other Western democracy to prosecute individuals for what they say online …

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access  —  The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook.

Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
[Thread] Elon Musk says “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets”, reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee  —  New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter’s unmatched record defending “actual” free speech globally  —  Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives.