EU warned Elon Musk about “disinformation” before Trump interview on X

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Elon Musk clashed with the EU ahead of a planned interview with Donald Trump on X as a war of words broke out between Brussels and the technology billionaire’s social media platform over content related to the US election.

The dispute erupted as Trump, the Republican US presidential nominee, returned to X on Monday with a number of posts on a social media platform that had once banned him, just hours before the interview with Musk.

The billionaire’s planned event with Trump triggered a strident warning to X from Thierry Breton, the EU commissioner for the internal market, about the dissemination of “content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation.”