Musk says Labour looking for ‘any excuse for censorship’ amid X row Daily Mail
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PARIS — French prosecutors searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
The investigation was opened in January last year by the prosecutors’ cybercrime unit, the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a statement. It is looking into alleged “complicity” in possession and spreading of pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organized group, among other charges.
In addition, prosecutors filed a request for “voluntary interviews” of Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X from 2023 to 2025, scheduled for April 20. Employees of the platform X have also been summoned that same week in April to be heard as witnesses, the statement said.
The socialist UK government is mulling plans to ban the social media giant X, owned by Elon Musk, over supposed online safety concerns.
UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has voiced support for regulator Ofcom to potentially restrict access to X if the platform fails to comply with national online safety laws.
The nation’s censors are specifically citing the use of X’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, which has been used to manipulate digital images.
The government argues that it is a crime to create AI-generated images of people without their consent.
Musk’s X settles lawsuit with ex-Twitter executives over $128m in unpaid severance The Guardian
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Elon Musk Says Open-Sourced X Algorithm Will Showcase Flaws, Improve Transparency As Trump Aide Peter Navarro Alleges ‘Propaganda’ On The Platform – Benzinga
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Elon Musk announced over X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the company is now being integrated with another company, xAI. The former company purchased $45 billion worth of X stock, leaving everyone to ask the question, “who owns xAI?”
Musk posted, “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach.”
Musk’s merger of X and xAI adds to history of opaque deals– www.washingtonpost.com
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Elon Musk’s X Raises Close to $1 Billion in Fresh Equity Funding – Bloomberg
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Elon Musk’s X ordered to hand over information about anonymous account – Irish Legal News
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Elon Musk’s X has been ordered to hand over information about an anonymous user who made allegedly defamatory posts about Belfast solicitor Kevin Winters and others.
Mr Winters, of KRW LAW, has been instructed by a number of individuals, including retired gardaí, who allege they were defamed by the user, identified only as “Malachy O”.
The posts, which were made in May and June 2023 and have since been deleted along with the entire account, targeted ex-Garda whistleblowers and others who were highly critical of alleged Garda wrongdoing.
Mr Winters said his clients, based in the Republic of Ireland, believe the “Malachy O” account was controlled by someone connected to An Garda Síochána.
