The European Commission last Friday decided to impose a punishment of EUR 120 million on the X Elona Musk platform. The reason was to ignore the Digital Services Act (DSA) in terms of transparency.
The proceedings against X lasted 2 years. The Commission has established that the platform violates 3 DSA rules: it uses a "blue stamp" to verify users in a misleading way, does not have a transparent advertising repository, and does not make data available for investigating in a regulatory manner.
This is the first specified punishment imposed by the EC on the digital giant since the DSA entered into force. However, EU officials point out that another proceedings are besides taking place against the organization whose head is Musk, and this is the consequence of the first one.
Elon Musk went into a rage after that decision and published a series of entries in which he suggested that "The European Union should be dissolved", and sovereignty restored to countries so that "governments could better represent their citizens". Dmitri Medvedev, Putin's chief propagandist, was delighted. "Exactly," wrote the Russian.
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It turned out that 1 of the European Commission's X-profiles was blocked shortly afterwards. Fortunately, it wasn't about the main account, it was about advertising. Paul Pinho's spokeswoman in a conversation with the Politico portal admitted that this profile of the EC had not been utilized since 2023 due to the fact that she did not want to print paid advertisements on the site.
On the another hand, the Digital Unit typical Thomas Regnier explained why the Commission has a full of 15 accounts per X. "This is how we want to scope out to citizens and our partners, as well as to inform about our work," he said.
Although this step may have upset you, the EC's main account is working for now. But it's not over.
The punishment issues for the Musk platform were late asked by Donald Trump. The US president criticised the EU for this decision. In an interview with journalists in the White House, he described her as "disgusting".
"Europe is going in the incorrect directions," he stated and announced that he would receive a detailed study on sanctions on the same day. He besides pointed out that Musk had not contacted him in this case, but warned that "Europe must be very careful". “I don’t realize how they could do this,” he concluded.
