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LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon
Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million)
for failing to comply with the bloc’s digital regulations.
The European Commission issued its decision following an
investigation it opened two years ago into X under the 27-nation
bloc’s Digital Services Act. Also known as the DSA, its a
sweeping rulebook that requires platforms to take more
responsibility for protecting European users and cleaning up
harmful or illegal content and products on their sites, under
threat of hefty fines.
The Commission said it was punishing X, previously known as
Twitter, because of three different breaches of the DSA’s
transparency requirements. The decision could rile President
Donald Trump, whose administration has lashed out at digital
regulations from Brussels and vowed to retaliate if American
tech companies are penalized.
Regulators said X’s blue checkmarks broke the rules because of
their “deceptive design” that could expose users to scams and
manipulation.
X also fell short of the requirements for its ad database and
giving access to researchers access to public data.
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