The EU's AI Act, now the law in the bloc's 27 member states, prohibits AI designed to distort a person’s decision-making through deceptive or manipulative techniques. This sets up a clash with the US, who want any AI eligible for federal contracts to only have right-wing viewpoints. Now we may get a glimpse of where the future is headed.
Twitter/X has already altered its algorithms to distort its user base towards right-wing content. That's against EU law, and France seems to have acted on it. It's worth noting that any of the other 26 countries can do the same. Ireland has often administered EU law, as almost all US Big Tech firms have their European HQ's there. But there's been a feeling that Ireland has been too lax in this role, as it gets so much money in corporate tax receipts from Big Tech.
X denies French allegations of algorithm manipulation