Something for the weekend - X marks the spot as Europe takes on Elon with a €120 million fine. Now, what will his on/off BFF in the White House have to say about that?

Well, at least they waited until after Thanksgiving this time. That hasn’t always been the case - see here and here - when it comes to the Eurocrats laying down the law to US Big Tech! But old habits die hard and so it’s time for another round of Brussels sprouting massive fines to bash American firms with.

This time around X marks the spot as Elon Musk’s Social-Media-Platform-Formerly-Known-As-Twitter gets landed with a €120 million fine for failing to comply with the requirements of the European Union’s (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA). Specifically Elon’s empire has been found guilty of not meeting the transparency obligations of the Act, with the European Commission (EC) declaring that the platform’s blue tick checkmarks are “deceptive”.

It’s the first fine for non-compliance under the DSA that the Commission has imposed. Henna Virkkunen, the Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Tech ...