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Musk’s X Gets New EU Demand for Data as Regulators Expand Probe

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The European Union has expanded its investigation into whether Elon Musk’s X is in breach of the bloc’s content moderation rulebook by demanding the social media platform hand over internal data.

The EU’s executive branch asked X to provide documents on how its recommendation algorithms work and whether they have recently changed as part an ongoing investigation under the Digital Services Act, or DSA, according to a European Commission statement Friday.