Flattery from Macron
Musk hasn’t but thrown his endorsement behind Marine Le Pen and the French far proper. However President Macron — who, like Scholz in Germany, is politically fragile and going through home turbulence — is determined to get him onside.
He has been urging the tech entrepreneur, alongside Trump, to attend a significant synthetic intelligence summit in Paris subsequent month. The duo’s look on the latest Notre-Dame reopening was a diplomatic coup for Macron.
“Trump doesn’t appear to carry Paris in the identical contempt he holds the EU or Germany,” mentioned a Republican overseas coverage knowledgeable working with Trump’s transition workforce, who spoke on situation of anonymity as a way to focus on the workforce’s inner considering. “Macron can take solace in the truth that he’s not Scholz.”
Making life troublesome for Macron, nonetheless, is the European Fee, which continues investigations into whether or not X complies with its data guidelines.
It has discovered the microblogging website in breach of the Digital Providers Act, the EU’s landmark content material moderation legislation, for the misleading design of “verified” badges and an absence of transparency to researchers.
The jury continues to be out on X’s potential violations across the dissemination of unlawful content material and measures to battle data manipulation, and the Fee is mulling whether or not it may slap Musk with a mega-fine.
