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However, if it were the only interview that Musk conducted with German parties then, by failing to give equal prominence to all mainstream views or promoting one party in a polarising manner, it may be that lawmakers perceive X and Musk have negatively affected civic discourse and the electoral process in Germany by only interviewing the AfD or failing to have an effective third party real-time moderator,
Holman added
Therefore we can indeed speak of political advertising in this case, because the Platform X usually sells this kind of reach for a lot of money,
the group said in a statement, ... according to a CNBC translationThis could potentially include disabling the recommendation algorithm of X until the federal election,
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Don't feed the troll,
outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told German weekly publication Stern when asked about Musk's attack on himself and other politicians from the country,If he uses this treatment to support the AfD via political statements and livestreams showcasing their candidate, this could easily violate the DSA,
she saidThe [European Commission] can request messages that are publicly posted on Slack,
Vermeulen said
That already places significant obstacles to transparency, and if there’s not enough transparency, there cannot be enough accountability,
Pírková saidThe Commission could look at whether Alice Weidel, or any other user for that matter, received a so-called power user multiplier score in its recommendation algorithms,
Vermeulen explained
What I’m trying to find out is if Musk is using a large information platform that he owns in ways which could diminish the freedom of speech of others, by hard-coding a multiplier into his own reach,
German Greens MEP Damian Boeselager told POLITICO on Monday, having formally asked Virkkunen to examine the issueThere will be a number of expert organizations who have the capacity regarding data scraping and data analysis [that] will be probably following [the event],
said Eliška Pírková, senior policy analyst at digital rights group Access NowHow much is [it] or will it be boosted? This is what the Commission will be looking at,
Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters on MondayIn the first survey we conducted this year, we found that this has not yet benefited the AfD,
Manfred Güllner, the head of the Forsa Institute, said
Yes! You are perfectly right!”
Weidel posted on X in reponse to Musk’s endorsementWhy is there such a negative reaction from some about AfD?”
Musk wrote on his X platform in JuneThere is a spread of disinformation and so much illegal content and these platforms are not respecting the DSA and our rules. So I think the Commission could do more in the framework that we have given them as legislators.”
Referring to X and other social media companies, she said
I don’t understand why people believe that free speech is not affected by the concentration of opinion-making power in the hands of the few. For me, that has rather illiberal, autocratic tendencies, rather than liberal tendencies, when one voice is so much more powerful than all the others.”
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We will not allow anyone to use the name of Catalonia to spread hate speech.”
Salvador Illa, the regional president of Catalonia and ally of the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, saidNothing in the DSA prohibits such a live stream,
the spokesperson saidWe are talking about a private business and we need to make sure our position is well founded,
a spokesperson saidIs it fair that one person can adjust his algorithms in a way that makes him and his politics and opinions more prevalent than others? Is it OK? Is it risky? Is it in line with the DSA?”
Referring to Musk, she asked