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Oct. 11-European regulators have issued a stern warning to Elon Musk Elon Musk, the boss of social media platform X, that illegal content and false information spread on X (formerly Twitter) during the Israel-Hamas conflict. Failure to comply with European rules on illegal content could result in a fine equivalent to 6 per cent of the company's annual revenue.

Thierry Thierry Breton, EU internal market commissioner, said in a letter to Mr Musk on Tuesday that there were "signs" found in his office that some groups were spreading misinformation, "violence and terrorism" on X, and urged the billionaire to respond within 24 hours.

Musk responded to Thierry Breton that the policy of the X platform is that all content is open source and transparent.

Before the letter was sent, many researchers, news organizations and other organizations found a significant increase in misleading, false and suspicious content on X, making people confused about the current conflict.

Bretton shared the letter through an X post and tagged Musk's account, including a reference to the Digital Services Act (Digital Services Act), new legislation issued by the European Commission that requires platforms with more than 4500 million monthly active users in the European Union to monitor and delete illegal content.

In his letter, Bretton reminded Musk that DSA had "very clear rules on content review" and that X needed to "keep your policy terms clear and transparent, including what content is allowed to be published, and to implement your policy tirelessly."

The commissioner said that recent "changes in public interest policies have puzzled many European users". Bretton seems to be referring to a change in X's public interest policy over the weekend that influenced the company's decision to make certain posts accessible to everyone in violation of the policy.

"Public media and civil society organizations have widely reported false and tampered images and facts circulating on your EU platform, such as the reuse of old images that are not related to armed conflict," the letter said. or military footage actually derived from video games. This is obviously false or misleading information. "

Bretton said he wanted Musk to ensure that X's "system is effective" and to "report to my team on the crisis response measures taken." He added that he hoped X would "keep in touch with relevant law enforcement agencies and Europol and ensure that you respond quickly to their requests".

"I would like to remind you (Musk) that you may be punished after a potential investigation and discovery of irregularities," Briton wrote. "

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