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Flattery from Macron
Musk hasn’t but thrown his endorsement behind Marine Le Pen and the French far proper. But President Macron — who, like Scholz in Germany, is politically fragile and dealing with 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 current 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,” stated a Republican overseas coverage skilled working with Trump’s transition crew, who spoke on situation of anonymity to be able to talk about the crew’s inner pondering. “Macron can take solace in the truth that he’s not Scholz.”
Making life troublesome for Macron, nevertheless, is the European Commission, which continues investigations into whether or not X complies with its data guidelines.
It has discovered the microblogging web site in breach of the Digital Services Act, the EU’s landmark content material moderation legislation, for the misleading design of “verified” badges and a scarcity of transparency to researchers.
The jury remains to be out on X’s potential violations across the dissemination of unlawful content material and measures to struggle data manipulation, and the Commission is mulling whether or not it might slap Musk with a mega-fine.
