EU regulatory remedies against political interference on the X platform (ecfr.eu)

• Musk has amplified far-right content and attacked European leaders on X.
• EU's DMA and DSA allow for interoperability and algorithmic choice remedies, but remain unused.
• The European Commission has shown reluctance to apply anti-interference measures to US-origin platforms.

"The European Council on Foreign Relations proposes two regulatory remedies to address Elon Musk's use of the X platform to interfere in European democracies: mandatory interoperability to allow users to move followers to other platforms, and mandatory algorithmic choice to let users select alternative content recommendation engines. The EU's Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act provide the legal basis but remain unused. The piece criticizes the EU for not applying similar anti-interference measures to US-origin platforms as it does to Russian disinformation."