”The court ordered X to provide access to all public information on X to make it possible to research whether election influencing is taking place,” the German Society for Civil Rights (GFF) said in a statement announcing the ruling.
Neither the court nor X immediately responded to a request to comment.The GFF and Democracy Reporting International had a
rgued that X had a duty under European law to provide easily researchable, collated access to information such as post reach, shares and likes – information theoretically available by laboriously clicking through thousands of posts but in practice impossible to access.The ruling obliges X to make the data available from now until shortly after the election.
The spread of misinformation and disinformation on X is of particular interest given its owner’s endorsement of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), running second in the polls behind the conservatives.
”Only the AfD can save Germany,” Tesla mogul and Trump confidante Musk posted in January before conducting a live interview with the party’s leader Alice Weidel.
”This is a huge success for freedom to research and for our democracy,” said the GFF’s Simone Ruf.
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