{"id":4341,"date":"2025-12-16T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:00:07","slug":"tensions-boil-over-in-wake-of-eu-landmark-e120m-fine-against-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/16\/tensions-boil-over-in-wake-of-eu-landmark-e120m-fine-against-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions boil over in wake of EU landmark \u20ac120m fine against X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Commission has fined Elon Musk&#8217;s platform X \u20ac120 million for breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA), specifically regarding deceptive design and lack of transparency. The decision sparked a backlash from Musk and US officials, highlighting the conflict between EU attempts to regulate digital platforms and the &#8220;free speech&#8221; absolutism that resists such oversight. The fine represents the first major enforcement action under the EU&#8217;s new digital rulebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 8, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/eu-and-the-world\/ar2b592e77\">euobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has fined Elon Musk&#8217;s platform X \u20ac120 million for breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA), specifically regarding deceptive design and lack of transparency. The decision sparked a backlash from Musk and US officials, highlighting the conflict between EU attempts to regulate digital platforms and the &#8220;free speech&#8221; absolutism that resists such oversight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}