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What are you waiting for, Brussels? Elon Musk’s decision to host German far-right leader Alice Weidel in a livestream on X is sparking fury from European Union leaders and lawmakers, who on Monday urged Brussels to deploy its full legal Read More …
The social media platform X has for months been aflush with praise for United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan in posts shared by hundreds of profiles — and all found to be fake. Analysed by AFP over several days, the large-scale Read More …
Social media companies including Meta’s Facebook and Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) are rushing to delete the pages associated with Ryan Wesley Routh from their platforms. While X has removed Routh’s profile from its platform, Facebook has removed all the Read More …
A judge in Brazil has blocked Starlink’s bank accounts in the country amid a deepening dispute with X. The move comes as the same Supreme Court judge has threatened to shut down X in the country, and is a direct Read More …
X, formerly known as Twitter, has closed its office in Brazil over a censorship row. The social media platform said a Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Alexandre de Moraes, threatened its legal representative in Brazil with arrest if it did not Read More …
A man described in court as a “political activist” has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with encouraging terrorism over social media posts relating to the Charlie Hebdo attack. Majid Novsarka, otherwise known as Majid Freeman, attended the London court Read More …
A man who posted material on social media to stir up racial hatred during recent unrest across the UK has been jailed for three years. Wayne O’Rourke, who had more than 90,000 followers to his X account, posted misinformation about Read More …
Technical difficulties delayed former President Donald Trump’s live conversation with Elon Musk on X by over 40 minutes. Musk blamed the issues on a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack, in which a bad actor seeks to overload a target server with Read More …
Privacy organisation Open Rights Group has branded a move by social network X (formerly Twitter) to use user data to train its Grok AI as a “blatant breach of GDPR”. The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is an EU law Read More …
Elon Musk’s X (Formerly Twitter) has been accused by the European Union (EU) of multiple violations of the Digital Services Act, which can potentially lead to hefty fines for the social media platform. One key violation includes allowing people to Read More …