European Union announces further investigation into social media platform X
The European Union Commission issued a communiqué on the 17th saying that it has taken additional investigation measures against the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) owned by American entrepreneur Elon Musk to evaluate whether the platform's recommender system complies with the relevant provisions of the European Union's Digital Services Act. The European Union Commission requires the X platform to provide internal documents of its recommender system by February 15, 2025, as well as any recent changes to the recommender system. The European Union Commission also issued a "retention order" requiring the platform to maintain internal documents and information on changes to the design and functionality of its recommendation algorithms between January 17, 2025 and December 31, 2025, unless the investigation ends early. In addition, the European Union Commission requires access to certain commercial Application Programming Interfaces of the X platform to directly investigate its content moderation and account dissemination.