EU investigates Elon Musk’s X over possible breaches of social media law
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European Commission says platform breached content moderation rules under EU Digital Services Act.
The European Union is investigating social media company X over suspected violations of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in its first probe under the law.
“Today we open formal infringement proceedings against @X” under the Digital Services Act, European Commissioner Thierry Breton said Monday in a post on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“The Commission will now investigate X’s systems and policies related to certain suspected infringements,” spokesperson Johannes Bahrke said at a news briefing in Brussels. “It does not prejudge the outcome of the investigation.”
The investigation will look into whether X failed to do enough to curb the spread of illegal content and whether measures to combat ” information manipulation”, especially through its crowd-sourced Community Notes fact-checking feature, were effective.
The probe will also consider issues with user interface, deceptive use of “verified’ accounts and lack of access to researchers.
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