EU turns up the heat on X over illegal content in wake of Israel-Hamas war | TechCrunch
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The European Union is cranking up the heat on Elon Musk-owned X. Late Thursday, the Commission sent the company a formal request for more information -- The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, including terrorist and violent content and hate speech. Earlier this week, the EU warned X for failing to take action on illegal content on its platform after Saturday’s deadly attacks on Israel by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

EU opens investigation into X over alleged disinformation - The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, incl…::The European Union is cranking up the heat on Elon Musk-owned X. Late Thursday, the Commission sent the company a formal request for more information – The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, including terrorist and violent content and hate speech. Earlier this week, the EU warned X for failing to take action on illegal content on its platform after Saturday’s deadly attacks on Israel by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

  • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Are we acting like Israel is not also terrorists themselves now? Or are we just biased against Hamas here.

    Ofc if the EU also investigates Israel disinformation, then it seems fair.

    • orrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think they will investigate much more than just disinformation on the Israel Hamas thing, but also the push of far-right extremism