US EditionEU regulators hit Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law
The €120 million fine is the EU's first under the Digital Services Act for misleading verification, ad transparency failures, and blocking researcher data access on X.
- 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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Washington, Dec 6 (EFE).- Magnate Elon Musk threatened to respond to the European Union for the 120 million euro fine that the European Commission issued against social network X for failing to comply with its transparency obligations under the Community digital services law. In a series of publications between Friday night and Saturday morning, the billionaire criticized the EU, calling for the block’s “abolition.” “Sovereignty (must) be return…
The European Commission fined Euro120 million to the X network for violating the Digital Services Act.
Europe should be abolished
United States tech billionaire Elon Musk has called for the abolition of Europe. He made this call in a statement on X on Saturday. According to him, power allocated to Europe as a union should be returned to individual member countries. “The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries so that governments can better represent their people,” Musk posted on his social media platform. The remarks come amid growing debate…
X's owner, after the platform was fined, denounces that his bureaucratic system is "suffocating Europe slowly to death"
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