US EditionElon Musk Calls for EU to Be “Abolished” After €120m Fine on X
The European Commission fined X $140 million for violations under the Digital Services Act, including deceptive verification and lack of ad transparency, marking the first major enforcement.
- The European Commission on Friday announced a $140 million fine against X for breaching transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act.
- After a two-year probe, the European Commission found X’s deceptive blue tick verification system, poor advertising repository transparency, and denial of researcher access to public data.
- On Saturday, Elon Musk, owner of X, called for the EU to be dismantled, writing `The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries` and using hashtag `AbolishTheEU`.
- X now faces a strict timeline to comply, with 60 days to propose verification fixes and 90 days for ad and researcher issues, while Trump administration officials and allies condemned the ruling Friday.
- The ruling, as the DSA's first major enforcement, triggered US officials in Washington to warn of tariffs and calls to scrap the Digital Services Act, while Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk defended the European Commission.
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The European Commission's $140 million fine on US tech mogul Elon Musk's social media platform X has heightened tensions between the United States and Europe, as evidenced by a sharp comment on social media by US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
The US billionaire's platform was fined €120 million under the European Digital Services Regulation (DSA).
Elon Musk has hit back at the European Union after it fined the tech giant's social media platform, X, telling its 230 million followers on the platform that the European Union should be shut down. Following a wide-ranging investigation seen as a test of the EU's resolve to monitor big tech companies, the social media platform, owned by the world's richest man, was fined €120 million...
This Saturday, magnate Elon Musk called for the abolition of the European Union after denouncing that its bureaucratic system is slowly 'suffocating Europe to death' in comments made after the European Commission announced a fine of EUR 120 million to its social network X on the eve of its 'misleading design' of its blue audit mark.In a long series of individual messages published over the last few hours, Musk has considered the fine as a Brusse…
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