The Irish headquarters of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has once again found itself at the centre of a question of jurisdiction. Elon Musk’s company has been in a battle with American non-profit Media Matters over illegal content on the platform and an advertiser boycott. This has included cases by X against the organisation in the US, Ireland and Singapore. Media Matters bills itself as a media watchdog and published reports in late 2023 into Musk’s sharing of antisemitic conspiracy theories on the platform as well as the proliferation of Nazi and other racist content that…

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