Musk’s X is biggest source of fake news, EU official says

Elon Musk has been warned about disinformation on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, by the EU (Michel Euler/AP/PA)

A top European Union official has said the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation.

Ahead of upcoming elections, Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta also have more to do to tackle disinformation, much of it coming from Russia, which is using social media to wage a “war of ideas” against democracy, European Commission vice president Vera Jourova said.