Enforcement authorities for the European Union's online governance system, the Digital Services Act (DSA), said on Thursday that disinformation campaigns on the Elon Musk-owned social network He announced that he would be closely monitoring the situation. Fico.
The organization has been formally investigating X since December over a variety of concerns, including disinformation in public discussions and the effectiveness of the platform's crowd-sourced “Community Notes” content moderation feature. No sanctions have been indicated so far.
yesterday musk I responded personally A post on X by right-wing political influencer Ian Miles Chong sought to link his suggested views to those of Fico, who rejects the World Health Organization's pandemic prevention plan. .
A senior European Commission official was asked to respond to this development in a Q&A with reporters as part of a background briefing held by the EU to discuss the two meta-DSA investigations announced by the EU earlier today. It acknowledged that it monitors content on the platform and analyzes it for fraudulent activity. “Additional evidence” about the effectiveness of X's disinformation mitigation measures will feed into the EU's ongoing investigation.
Note: Violations of the DSA can result in fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue, so Musk's propensity for shitposting could ultimately be costly for the company over the entire regulatory enforcement cycle. There is a possibility that it will happen.
Grok election monitoring
Also on Thursday X has been announced Premium users in the EU can finally type on Musk's generated AI chatbot Grok. The tool is fundamentally trained to be politically incorrect (as opposed to the efforts of competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which are perceived as politically correct).musk Posted To promote the development, I briefly wrote, caveman style, “Grok is now available in Europe.”
It turns out that Grok is also on the EU's DSA watchlist. A senior European Commission official said today that the EU is “in very close contact with X regarding the launch of Grok.”
The person suggested that X had delayed the launch of some elements of Grok in the region until after the next European elections, but did not specify which features had been disabled. We have contacted the commission for clarification.
“X has delayed the rollout of some Grok features until after the election,” the official told reporters. “I think this is a recognition on their part that some of these features may have risks in the context of civil debate and elections in the context of ongoing investments. ”
We also contacted Company X about Grok's launch in the EU, but Company X had not responded to our questions at the time of writing.