A major French news outlet is suing Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, claiming the social platform failed to discuss compensation for sharing news there.

Agence France-Presse (AFP), a France-based newswire service, announced on Wednesday that it was suing Musk in a Paris court over copyright law. France passed a law in 2019 establishing “neighboring rights,” a principle in copyright law that compels online platforms to negotiate with news outlets for compensation.

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"Agence France-Presse has expressed its concerns over the clear refusal from Twitter (recently rebranded as ‘X’) to enter into discussions regarding the implementation of neighbouring rights for the press," the outlet said in a statement.

Musk slammed AFP’s lawsuit in an X post. "This is bizarre. They want us to pay them for traffic to their site where they make advertising revenue and we don't!?" the billionaire wrote.

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France's antitrust watchdog fined Google 500 million euros in 2021 for failing to negotiate compensation with local news outlets.

The suit was filed at the same time that Meta and Google were removing news links from the Canadian internet in protest of C-18, a bill that would require online platforms to provide compensation to news outlets. Meta began removing Canadian news links from the platform this week.