Musk’s ‘Bird Is Freed,’ Twitter Pledge Gets Cool Reception In EU, Where ‘The Bird Will Fly By Our Rules’

Elon Musk's Twitter profile on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos on April 28, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

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.