US EditionEU regulators hit Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law
The €120 million fine penalizes X for deceptive blue checkmarks, insufficient ad transparency, and blocking researcher access, affecting millions of EU users under the Digital Services Act.
- On Friday, the European Commission fined Elon Musk's social media platform X €120m under the Digital Services Act after a two-year investigation.
- EU regulators said X breached transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act by using a deceptive blue checkmark design, opaque ad repository, and denying researcher access.
- The Commission broke the penalty into 45 million, 40 million and 35 million components tied to specific breaches, with X having 60 and 90 days to submit remedies, and 'Failure to comply with the non-compliance decision may lead to periodic penalty payments.'
- Facing US criticism and the prospect of legal challenge, X can appeal the Commission's decision in European courts, while Henna Virkkunen insisted, `We are not here to impose the highest fines` and US Vice President JD Vance criticised the move.
- As the EU issues its first DSA sanction, the ruling establishes a precedent for wider enforcement across the 27-nation European Union, with ongoing investigations into X's handling of illegal content and algorithmic systems and other probes into TikTok continuing.
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This financial sanction, imposed under the European Digital Services Regulation (DSA), has been denounced as "censorship" on the Washington side.
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