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German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform (www.politico.eu)
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BERLIN — A German court handed Elon Musk’s X a legal defeat, ruling that the platform must immediately provide researchers with access to data on politically related content ahead of the country’s Feb 23 election.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess the system could just close twitter in the country until elections end as an emergency procedure alleging election manipulation. After the elections ended, we can argue whatever he wants.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah i think if he just flat out refuses the order, the legal proceedings wont take very long. There is nothing to discuss so it can just be blocked immediately.