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France’s AFP sues Elon Musk’s X over payments for news

Elon Musk's social media platfrom X is being sued by the news agency AFP [File: Joel Saget/AFP]

French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s X, accusing the social media platform of refusing to engage in discussions about payments for the distribution of news.

AFP said on Wednesday it had filed the lawsuit in Paris to compel the platform formerly known as Twitter to hand over information that would allow it to calculate fair compensation for the sharing of its content.

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