Social media companies will hope their close relationship with US President Donald Trump will ease the burden of regulation in the likes of Europe and the UK. But parent groups may complicate that.
Frustrated by the slow pace of investigations in Brussels, critics of Elon Musk’s social network and its influence on politics are targeting X’s Dublin office through their national authorities.
A German non-profit attempted to seek evidence from Twitter’s Irish entity in a US court to use in a German legal action. To date, the organisation has faced multiple knockbacks from judges.
A judge in Berlin told two organisations that their complaints against X should be taken in Ireland, setting the stage for more disputes for Elon Musk’s platform in Irish courts.
Aaron Rodericks has previously claimed he was suspended and exposed to a "sham" disciplinary process for allegedly retweeting and liking tweets critical of the tech billionaire.
A year on from Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter, now known as X, the platform appears clunky and antagonistic to many users. Yet a critical mass remains and new data shows Irish users are largely remaining on site.
X’s Dublin-based international office has reported multi-million-euro redundancy and lease exit costs while disclosing impairments in the value of the social network in the months following its takeover by Elon Musk.
It's not immediately obvious how to fix Twitter's broken business model. $1 billion in annual interest payments as a result of the Musk takeover should concentrate minds.
The author, former New York Times journalist and Covid-19 vaccine sceptic Alex Berenson is taking steps to sue Twitter in Ireland for alleged defamation. He was kicked off the platform last year for violating Twitter's Covid-19 misleading information policy.
By locating intellectual property in Ireland, Twitter was planning to shrink taxable profits for 15 years. Now the social network is not so sure the green jersey scheme is going to deliver.
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