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Far-right lawmakers feel empowered to step up their attacks against EU social media rules.

Independent MEP Fidias Panayiotou met the billionaire in 2023 and has taken his line on some big political issues, from Ukraine to digital rules.

Up to 150 experts in Brussels and Seville will be checking whether Musk’s livestream interview boosts the German far right.

The “chameleon” tech billionaire is one of the most powerful politically connected people in the world. Europe’s governments are still working out how to deal with being on his bad side.

What the European Union will be squabbling about in the Commission’s upcoming term.

The Elon Musk-owned social media platform touts its moderation efforts in a risk assessment submitted to the Commission.

Media organizations turns up the heat on X amid cries of ‘toxic’ content.

Queries for Henna Virkkunen: What’s tech sovereignty? How can Europe win the AI race? And how will you enforce EU tech rules?

The EU is under pressure to flex its new digital rules. One of its top targets is a tech tycoon lauded by the new U.S. president.

Traffickers are to blame, the candidates say. Virtually no one’s talking about treatment.

The sites have 15 days to implement effective age controls.

If shortlisted, Musk will be invited to the European Parliament to defend his views on free speech.

The Meta exec and former British deputy PM launched a broadside at X owner Elon Musk.

Elon Musk’s X is subject to a Commission probe on compliance with the bloc’s content-moderation rulebook.

Europe has moved slowly to regulate Pavel Durov’s social media app.

France’s arrest of tech prodigy spotlights messaging service that shelters those who want to avoid government attention.

“With great audience comes greater responsibility.”

Far-right agitators have long enjoyed an unparalleled level of impunity on Telegram.

Musk has waded into Britain’s riots with a series of posts on his X platform — and faces criticism over the handling of online disinformation.

Britain’s government has social platforms in its sights as incitement spreads — and the X owner is squaring up for a fight.

The tech mogul’s platform is the first to get hit with charges under new EU social media law.

The country’s National Rally and Reconquest political parties have used the tech to promote divisive messages about migration and the EU.

Countries clash over how to safeguard privacy when rooting out illegal pictures and grooming on private chat apps.