US EditionElon Musk Calls for EU to Be “Abolished” After €120m Fine on X
The European Commission fined X €120 million for deceptive verification, ad transparency failures, and blocking researcher data access under the Digital Services Act.
- Following the €120 million Digital Services Act fine last week, X terminated the European Commission's ad account, citing an exploit in its Ad Composer, Bier said.
- The European Commission activated a dormant ad account that triggered an older Ad Composer tool allowing a link to preview as a video, which X said amplified the post's reach.
- Nikita Bier said the European Commission exploited an ad composer bug, and X added that the exploit has been patched.
- The Commission set a 60-working-day deadline and 90 days to address ads and researcher-access concerns, and a European Commission spokesperson told BBC News it "always uses all social media platforms in good faith".
- X's clash with Brussels adds to earlier regulator rows, including a 2024 Brazil settlement for 28 million reais, while Elon Musk said the EU 'should be abolished' and Marco Rubio and the FCC accused the EU regulator of censorship last week.
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Last Friday, the European Commission announced the imposition of a fine of 120 million euros to X (formerly Twitter) for three violations of the Digital Services Regulation. One of these violations is the end of the Twitter verification system. Before tycoon Elon Musk took over the platform for 44 billion dollars, Twitter gave blue badges to relevant people and institutions so that users would know if someone was saying something was the real pe…
Elon’s Crying Censorship Over An EU Fine That Has Nothing To Do With Censorship
Elon Musk is now calling for the dissolution of the European Union because it fined him $140 million for violating a law he once said was "exactly aligned" with his vision for (what was then called) Twitter. And he's doing it by lying about what the fine is actually for. The EU hit X with…
EU Fine on Elon Musk’s X Triggers Biggest US–EU Clash of Trump 2.0 - Hungarian Conservative
Transatlantic relations are witnessing their most tense period since US President Donald Trump took office for the second time in January 2025, after the European Commission decided on Friday to fine Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act. The US billionaire described the fine as ‘bullsh*t’, framing it as an attack on free speech and American tech, a view echoed by high-ranking members of the Trump administration. The European Commission fi…
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