As Simon Harris harangues social media platforms for abusive content, a court ruling in Germany is setting the stage for more rows in Ireland for Elon Musk’s X. A case taken in Berlin by two non-profit and civil society groups against the platform formerly known as Twitter over anti-Semitic content has been unsuccessful, with a judge ruling that the German court has no jurisdiction for the case and the complaints ought to be made in Ireland. The organisations, HateAid and the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), had complained in their case that X had failed in its duty to…

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