Musk and Trump officials exploded over the massive fine, putting a strained U.S.-E.U. relationship under even more pressure.

The case over online transparency has become a point of contention between the European Union and the Trump administration.

Elon Musk and the Trump administration slammed the European Union after X was hit with a $140 million fine for Digital ...

Elon Musk’s X was hit with a $140 million fine on Friday over alleged breaches of Europe’s Digital Services Act, the online ...

European regulators said​ X breached transparency rules under the Digital Services Act, a sweeping EU law intended to protect ...

The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission denounced the EU's fine of Elon Musk's social media company X on ...

EU regulators also reprimanded the social media company for its lack of ad transparency and failure to provide researchers ...

The EU has fined Elon Musk's social media platform X €120m (£105m) over its blue tick badges - prompting an angry reaction ...

The fines were due to the platform's misleading use of blue check marks to identify verified users and a lack of transparency ...

That reference to “civil society” is a tell. Brussels wants to force X (and inevitably other platforms) to share data that hostile activists can wield against the platforms in future regulatory ...