Elon Musk's social media platform X has defended itself against claims from the European Union that it is failing to tackle disinformation around the violence in Israel and Gaza.
The firm's CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote that the platform had"taken action to remove or label tens of thousands of pieces of content" and removed hundreds of accounts linked to Gaza militant organisation Hamas, which attacked Israel on Saturday.
Breton, the EU's self-styled"digital enforcer", demanded on Tuesday that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, whose Meta group includes Facebook and Instagram, provide details of how they were tackling"illegal content and disinformation". Yaccarino wrote that more than 700 notes were added to posts in the first four days after the violence erupted in Israel, and they were seen tens of millions of times.Musk's leadership since the renewed Israel violence has drawn plenty of criticism, not just from the European Union.
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