After years of ignoring warnings, mocking regulators, and turning Twitter into a Xitter: literally a hotbed of extremism, state propaganda, and election disinformation, pedo guy Elon Musk finally got what he was begging for: a direct hit from the European Union. Brussels has officially fined X (formerly Twitter) €120 million under the Digital Services Act, making Musk the first tech exec to learn the hard way that the EU isn’t impressed and will enforce the law.
This is the first major, historic enforcement action against a “Very Large Online Platform” — and yes, the EU picked Elon Musk as their opening kill shot for a reason.
He begged for this.
He dared them to act.
They acted.And now the question isn’t why Musk was fined (the list is biblical), but what the EU will do when he inevitably refuses to comply.
Spoiler: Europe doesn’t negotiate with billionaire warlords.
This is the story of the day Elon Musk discovered the hard way that the European Union is not the United States. They don’t do culture-war cosplay. They don’t care about his memes. They enforce the law — and Musk just became the global test case.
The charges the TechnoKing has been slapped with read like a dystopian greatest hits compilation: failure to remove illegal content, rampant hate speech, unchecked election manipulation, refusal to provide transparency reports, and Musk’s own personal signal-boosting of deepfakes, foreign propaganda, and antisemitic garbage. As a “Very Large Online Platform (VLOP),” Xitter is legally required to mitigate these risks, yet Musk gutted trust & safety teams, mocked regulators, and treated DSA compliance as an optional side quest. Europe has sent him the bill.
I wait with bated breath for the EU response to his ignoring them.
I wonder if his accountants just treat this as a cost of doing business, and how this fine compares with the revenue generated by the noxious content.