Posted on 01/10/2025 3:22:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Under the Digital Services Act, Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, could face heavy penalties should investigators for the European Union find that he manipulated the site's algorithm in order to influence voters. The DSA was adopted in 2022 to prevent disinformation and other illegal activities online.
In July, the European Union found that X had violated multiple tenets of the DSA by not providing access to data to researchers, failure to complay with advertising-transparency requirements, and selling access to its "blue check" verification system in a way that allowed fraudsters to impersonate celebrities and public officials.
On Thursday, Musk livestreamed a conversation with Alice Weidel, the leader of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), and amplified the party's message ahead of February's elections. As Musk has grown more politically active, there is growing concern that X could manipulate its algorithm to boost the visibility of the interview and offer Weidel an unfair advantage, which would violate the DSA, as well as the integrity of Germany's approaching election.
"If an online platform is posing a systemic risk to electoral integrity and public discourse in the EU, the DSA should immediately kick in through its risk-assessment and -mitigation framework,” Eliska Pirkova, a senior policy analyst with the digital rights group Access Now, told DW.
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Good luck shutting him down in Europe. Starlink and repeaters will keep him up if he wants to ignore your sanctions.
Once again Europe is acting right out of the SOVIET PLAYBOOK. It’s hard to see Trump not wanting to cut Europe loose and letting them deal with Russia, China, and their own people.
“should investigators for the European Union find that he manipulated the site’s algorithm in order to influence voters.”
So, does unmanipulating the algorithm so it does not favor one set of political opinions constitute “influencing voter?”
The EU is the new Soviet Union and should be treated as such. They are not America’s friends anymore.
The Blackmail for cash starts
Useless bureaucrats must stay awake at night coming up with ideas to shut down successful people.....
The Europeons (sp?) are not our friends. It looks like Liz Cheney and the Endorsers have gotten to them.
screw those inbred elitist pieces of trash
ride, Elon, ride
Globalists and Lefties in Europe are already on the ropes...they just need to hunker down with the totalitarianism.
The pendulum is swinging. And it isn't swinging in the favored direction of the Globalists, the EU, or the European Left.
Europe has its own fire (migrant violence and grooming gangs). Perhaps the leaders in the EU should hold a pow-wow with LA Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Newsom.
"Leadership failures unite!"
There motto should be, "Remember Justin Trudeau. Our hero."
“The EU is the new Soviet Union and should be treated as such. They are not America’s friends anymore.”
Dittos
At least in Australia it’s called the Tall Poppy Complex. Any blossoming above the rest must be clipped off. Envy is perhaps the main foundation of Socialism.
And on the flip side, next time their sorry EU-azzes are in a jam, the free Starlink care package may just not turn up.
The beauty of X is, Elon controls the infrastructure to make it work and he’s not beholden to the US government for either.
HOORAY Elon!
Investigating people because they have opinions you don’t like. Sounds rather Soviet.
The level of fraud and deceit in that sentence is staggering.
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." --George Orwell
Why are politicians allowed to to influence voters?
Elon is for free speech.
Totalitarian fascists want to squash communications that are against totalitarian fascism.
Too bad for them that Elon has more than enough FU $.
We support allies who support the UN charter on human rights. These Eurotrash countries clearly do not fit that mold and we should ditch them. Cut all NATO ties and subsidies.
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