Recently, Elon Musk's X, which used to be called Twitter,
has been looked at by the European Union (EU) Commission. The main focus of the
probe is on possible violations of the Digital Services Act (DSA), specifically
illegal content, advertising, and spreading false information on big tech
platforms. The official process in the EU is meant to find out if X has broken
the DSA in areas like risk management, content moderation, dark patterns,
advertising openness, and researchers' access to data.
The EU will look into X in a number of important areas. The
spread of illegal content in the EU and the steps that company X has taken to
stop this is an important factor. This includes how the platform handles fake
news and hate speech and what it does when users report such content.
Another important topic is X's work to stop people from
manipulating information, with a focus on how well its "Community
Notes" system, which lets anyone check facts, works.
The EU is also worried about problems with openness at X,
such as researchers not being able to get to data on the site. Under Musk's
direction, changes to the company's API pricing have made it harder to do
studies on X.
The probe will also look into how open X's ads repository is
and how misleading the user interface is. The verification checkmarks for X's
paid subscription service are interesting because they may have caused
confusion at first because they were meant to confirm the name of famous users.
A number of things that happened and conversations between
Musk and EU Commissioner Thierry Breton led to the review. Because there was a
lot of false information on the site, Breton told X that the EU might look into
it. The EU's worries were not eased by Musk's public response or the following
letters between X CEO Linda Yaccarino and the EU. This led to a formal request
for information from X.
The DSA went into force this year in the EU. It makes
"Very Large Online Platforms" (VLOPs) like Meta and X legally
responsible for users' harmful or illegal content. Musk has said that his
company might pull X out of the EU rather than following the DSA. Now that the
investigation is official, and Musk could face big fines, everyone is looking
forward to hearing his answer and hearing about his plans for X in the EU in
the future.
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