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EU “energetically” probing disinformation, right-wing bias on X, report says


Elon Musk wading further into global right-wing politics raises alarms in EU.

In the EU, some officials are worried that Musk might possibly be controlling X to boost conservative narratives and influence elections—and that the EC potentially isn't acting fast enough to protect the democratic process. Bloomberg noted that French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has urged the EC to "use the tools that we’ve given it democratically a lot more robustly to discourage this sort of behavior." "Either the European Commission applies the laws we’ve created to protect the public sphere with the utmost firmness, or it doesn’t, in which case it must agree to return the ability to do so to EU member states," Barrot said.

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