TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, slapping Elon Musk's X with a €120 million penalty for breaching the bloc's rules on ad transparency,

Elon Musk's X now faces a whopping $140 million fine from the EU's Digital Services Act for its blue check verification.

The European Union fined Elon Musk's social media platform, X, 120 million euros for breaching digital regulations. This is the first non-compliance decision under the Digital Services Act, following accusations of transparency requirement breaches involving verification systems and ad databases.

Brussels ruled that Elon Musk's social media platform violated three provisions of the European Union's Digital Services Act related to transparency and accountability. It is continuing its investigation into the dissemination of illegal content and misinformation.

The European Commission has accused X of misleadingly authenticating user accounts with blue ticks, withholding data from researchers and not transparently signposting advertisements.

Elon Musk has accused the European Commission of offering X an “illegal secret deal if we quietly censored speech” after his platform became the first to fall foul of the European Union‘s (EU) Digital Services Act. X, formerly Twitter, was today ...

On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published the long-awaited Digital Omnibus, an initiative to streamline and update key pillars of