The UK’s influential Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Committee (DCMSC) has invited Elon Musk to discuss his purchase of Twitter.

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MP Julian Knight, who chairs the cross-party parliamentary committee, wrote to Musk to extend the invitation.

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“My Committee has noted your proposed acquisition of Twitter, and we are interested in the developments you propose,” Knight writes. “In particular, your intention to roll out verification for all users echoes our calls on the U.K. Government as part of proposed legislation, which we hope will restore the U.K. public’s trust in digital platforms.”

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Musk later replied to the parliament in an email, sharing it is too early to accept the invitation, mainly due to the fact there has not yet been a shareholder vote to approve the deal.

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As shared in the letter, Musk’s plans to require users to verify their identity shares similarities to a 2020 DCMSC report about misinformation on COVID, which called “for greater transparency of bots and automated and spam accounts”

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A more recent report on the U.K.’s Online Safety Bill also “discussed ways to balance civil liberties like freedom of expression with the need to tackle pernicious, pervasive online child sexual exploitation and abuse.”

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This comes just a week after the Tesla CEO acquired Twitter for $44 billion cash last Monday when he immediately shared his plans to improve the social media platform. These plans include launching new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, banning all spambots, authenticating all humans, and allowing free speech on the platform.

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