Semafor reports the Irish Media Commission is investigating Elon Musk’s social platform X over child-safety practices, focusing on its age-verification mechanisms and parental controls. The regulator said it will assess whether X effectively implements age safeguards and whether it provides adequate protection for users under 16 where adult content is allowed; it flagged parental-control features as potentially inadequate, hard to find, and not sufficiently highlighted to new users. If found to

Semafor reports the Irish Media Commission is investigating Elon Musk’s social platform X over child-safety practices, focusing on its age-verification mechanisms and parental controls. The regulator said it will assess whether X effectively implements age safeguards and whether it provides adequate protection for users under 16 where adult content is allowed; it flagged parental-control features as potentially inadequate, hard to find, and not sufficiently highlighted to new users. If found to breach Irish online-safety regulations, X could face fines of up to €20m or 10% of the company’s annual turnover.