The European Commission sees evidence of “motivated malicious actors” using X’s blue ticks to deceive users. Musk fires back, claiming that the EC offered his company “an illegal secret deal.”
Elon Musk is in strife with the European Commission, once again, with his social media platform X under threat of fines of up to 6 per cent of its global turnover. that came into force this year. Since Musk acquired the social media site for $US44 billion two years ago, its structure and practices seem to have been re-designed to be in conflict with legislation that regulates content on the big technology platforms.“You can run but you can’t hide,” he wrote in a post at the time.
The second “grievance” is that X doesn’t comply with the DSA’s requirement for transparency in advertising, and the third is that it doesn’t give researchers access to its public data, as required by the DSA.“The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not,” he posted.
X does have an opportunity to respond to the preliminary findings, although Musk has said that he was looking forward to “a very public battle in court.” X isn’t the only big platform provider being targeted by the EC for breaches of the DSA or its sister act, the Digital Markets Act, or DMA, which regulates conduct. Breaches of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10 per cent of a company’s global turnover.
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