German Government Sued By Elon Musk's X over Censorship Demands

Elon Musk’s X social media firm announced it has launched legal cases in Germany against government “overreach” against the platform’s users’ privacy and freedom of expression.

Amid increasing scrutiny of the censorship regime in Germany in the wake of U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, the Global Government Affairs division of X said on Monday that it has filed lawsuits in courts across the country to challenge the lawfulness of censorship demands.

In a statement, the American tech giant claimed that Germany subunits the “highest number of legal demands for user data to X within the European Union”.