German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform – POLITICO
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Summary

A German court ruled that Elon Musk’s X must immediately provide researchers with data on politically related content ahead of Germany’s Feb. 23 election.

The lawsuit, filed by Democracy Reporting International and the Society for Civil Rights, accused X of blocking efforts to track election interference.

The ruling enforces the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), requiring major platforms to grant researcher access. It also orders X to pay legal costs and imposes a €6,000 procedural fine.

The decision sets a legal precedent, but it remains unclear if X will appeal.

  • Monomate@lemm.eeEnglish
    214·
    4 hours ago

    Brazil’s dictator-judge Alexandre de Moraes only had free reign last year to do what he did because the US used to have a living corpse as the president. Now, with Orange-Man-Bad as president, I don’t know if the same judge would have the guts to block X nationwide again. Especially with Trump showing he’s not afraid to impose tariffs on a whim. And it’s also apparent that Trump hears what Elon has to say, and Elon is hungry for revenge. The judge only needs to step out of the line for Elon to retaliate.

    • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 hours ago

      Nobody cares about Trump’s tariffs, it’s the US import companies that have to pay, not the foreign companies selling the imports, and they just pass those costs on to the American consumer.

      • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        … if the foreign companies want to keep selling to the U.S. market, yeah. Sure, they can choose not to, but that way the company loses global market share and customers. I think it hurts both U.S. consumers and foreign companies who’d like to make a profit in exports.

      • Monomate@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        Any flavor that would send Alexandre de Moraes to the jail cell, his rightful place.

          • Monomate@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            You never know what the political world has in store. Before Alexandre de Moraes, doing blatant preventive censorship was unthinkable. When he made this practice into the “new normal”, he radicalized the right even more, and they might turn to dirty tricks to get to him.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Especially with Trump showing he’s not afraid to impose tariffs on a whim.

      Yeah I dunno 100% what comes imported from Brasil off the top of my head…Oh, my favorite coffee beans come from there!

      But boy oh boy are we U.S folk excited , thrilled even, to (checks papers) have handbag-baby-man frivolously attempt to bully other countries by threatening to (paper flip)…

      Punish us with even higher prices on goods and more foreign disdain. . .?

      Bros…I think we’re hostages but the hostage taker doesn’t understand countries or economics. Plz help I think it’s pretty clear this guy has a hate-boner for Americans. :(