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The Guardian|January 09, 2025
The EU executive has been too slow to enforce a law intended to ensure good behaviour by social media companies, MEPs have said, amid concern about the aggressive forays by Elon Musk into European politics.
Jennifer Rankin

The European Commission is under pressure to act as Musk, the owner of X and the world's richest man, prepares for a livestreamed conversation on the platform today with the leader of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, Alice Weidel. The conversation with Musk, who boasts 211.4m followers, is seen as handing a significant advantage to the AfD as Germany prepares for elections on 23 February.

Damian Boeselager, an MEP, co-founder of the pan-European Volt party and candidate in the German election, has written to the commission urging it to examine Musk's "interference" in European elections.

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