Elon Musk’s X (Formerly Twitter) has been accused by the European Union (EU) of multiple violations of the Digital Services Act, which can potentially lead to hefty fines for the social media platform. One key violation includes allowing people to get a “checkmark” which was once reserved only for verified users.
However, Musk wrote a post on X on Friday stating, “The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.” Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the internal market responded stating, “Be our guest @elonmusk. There has never been — and will never be — any ‘secret deal’. With anyone.”
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Source: MSN News
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