Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC

The Federal Trade Commission is being urged by privacy advocates to reject a bid by X to end ongoing government monitoring of the platform's data handling practices. X argues the monitoring order is no longer necessary because the company has made changes and been rebranded since its previous ownership, but advocates warn that recent developments around X's AI training practices and data incidents demonstrate the need for continued FTC oversight. The advocates cite concerns including a lawsuit over the platform's AI chatbot generating abusive material, a large data leak, the collection of billions of user posts for AI training without explicit consent, and a pattern of actions that violated previous FTC orders. The debate centers on whether the FTC should maintain its enforcement authority over X or whether the company's claimed reforms and compliance with other regulations make such oversight unnecessary.