Elon Musk’s X hit by complaints to EU over user data and targeted advertising

Elon Musk’s X social media platform has been hit by complaints by nine civil society organisations to EU and French regulators over what they say is its use of users’ data for targeted advertising that may breach EU tech rules.

The organisations – AI Forensics, the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe, Entropy, European Digital Rights, Gesellschaft fur Freiheitsrechte e.V. (GFF), Global Witness, Panoptykon Foundation, Stichting Bits of Freedom and VoxPublic said they took their complaint to the European Commission and the French media regulator…