Commission also says it will remain on X for now to “get in touch” with citizens.

The European Commission said it will “make sure” it receives money owed by Elon Musk’s X after the company was fined €120 million for failing to meet transparency rules.

The Commission on Friday said X has breached transparency and deceptive design obligations under the EU’s platforms regulation, the Digital Services Act, and issued the €120 million penalty.

The decision set off a cascade of accusations of censorship from U.S. officials, Musk and his supporters, with some suggesting the company should refuse to pay the fine.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    [X] hasn’t replied to POLITICO’s repeated requests for comment.

    lol

    Not the main point, but I found this interesting:

    Regnier also justified the Commission’s continued use of X as a platform for corporate communications, despite the severity of anti-EU comments posted by Musk over the weekend and the platform’s decision to suspend the Commission’s account for paid advertising.

    The EU executive uses 15 social media platforms and hasn’t made a decision to suspend its use of X, Regnier said.

    All these platforms are ways to “get in touch to citizens, stakeholders, to do some outreach work, to precisely speak about what we are doing in the EU,” he said.

    Statements comparing the EU to Nazi Germany are “part of the freedom of speech that we very much praise in the EU,” which “allows even for the craziest statements that you can imagine,” Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.

    The Commission stopped “using paid advertising or any paid services for X” in 2023 and its regular account remains open, Regnier said.

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
      English
      23·
      4 days ago

      Statements comparing the EU to Nazi Germany are “part of the freedom of speech that we very much praise in the EU,” which “allows even for the craziest statements that you can imagine,”

      That’s news to Germany.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      114·
      4 days ago

      So why is the EU this interested in defending spreading lies and propaganda? It comes off to me like a complete lack of a backbone. Like a pacifist who believes so intensely in pacifism that they’d rather let a nation commit genocide, than stopping it with force. Which, after writing that, also seems to apply to the EU…