4mo ago

EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

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4mo ago

EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/04/eu-may-make-an-example-of-x-by-issuing-1-billion-fine-to-musks-social-network/

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4mo ago

EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/04/eu-may-make-an-example-of-x-by-issuing-1-billion-fine-to-musks-social-network/

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It deserves a corporate death penalty. Just shut it down in the EU and ban it from operating there. It should also forfeit all its property and assets in the bloc.
- For the record, I'm not against this, but this makes precedence the next right wing party can follow to takedown leftist institutions
  
  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD stop fucking not doing shit because right wingers might do it later. THEY ALREADY DO.
  
  Dude, Trump just pardoned a corporation. We're past that point.
  
  you mean like they already are?
@vegeta
$1 billion hardly covers the damage Musk has done to the world
- If this is simply "making an example of", than I assume this might be the base price.
Oh, please do. Don't stop.
Pump those rookie numbers up
Can wait until Trump increases the EU's tariffs until they buy a minimum of a million Teslas per quarter.
They'll survive the sting, but nice to see they are not above the law.
- I think there are fines and consequences if he does not pay. I doubt he will pay?
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Here is why they're being fined
The EU announced a formal investigation into X in December 2023, saying it would "assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers." A July 2024 ruling that X violated the law cited Musk's overhaul of the verification system created when the company was called Twitter, and other changes.
X "designs and operates its interface for the 'verified accounts' with the 'Blue checkmark' in a way that does not correspond to industry practice and deceives users," the EU regulator said at the time. "Since anyone can subscribe to obtain such a 'verified' status, it negatively affects users' ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts and the content they interact with. There is evidence of motivated malicious actors abusing the 'verified account' to deceive users."
The EU further said that "X does not comply with the required transparency on advertising," and "fails to provide access to its public data to researchers in line with the conditions set out in the DSA."
I would like to know more about providing public data to researchers. Does that mean it prohibits authwalls? So Facebook and LinkedIn and Reddit can be fined too?
Can courts please not "make an example" out of anyone?
Just fine all of these companies that violate the DSA billions.
The way won’t ever pay
Why is there no mention of chat interoperability?
Why aren't they fining companies for this? That was the most exciting requirement of the DSA.

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