{"id":833764,"date":"2026-03-18T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/833764\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:26:19","slug":"elon-musks-x-cooperates-with-e120m-eu-fine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/833764\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X cooperates with \u20ac120M EU fine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting the deadline means X either paying the fine or offering a financial guarantee that it will do so should its appeal against the fine fail. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the two options\u201d has been met, Regnier said, adding: \u201cThe Commission is really not in the habit of communicating about financial transactions happening between private businesses and the Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>X declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-slaps-e120m-fine-on-x-straining-ties-with-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in December found X in breach<\/a> of the EU\u2019s platform law, the Digital Services Act, for the design of blue checkmarks and for failing to meet transparency obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Both Musk and U.S. Republicans expressed strong dissatisfaction with the fine when it was issued, describing it as an attack on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The company is appealing the decision at the Court of Justice of the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meeting the deadline means X either paying the fine or offering a financial guarantee that it will do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7156,1194,2437,30,21469,295,2000,299,5187,7965,49],"class_list":["post-833764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-breaches","tag-budget","tag-companies","tag-courts","tag-digital-services-act","tag-elon-musk","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-platforms","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116249702220137685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}