Elon Musk is investigated by the European Commission due to bad practices of the social network X. The organization assured that the victory of Donald Trump there would be no reason to slow down which would probably end in a fine. Musk became one of the main spokespersons in favor of the second period of government of Trump.
“The elections in USA will not affect our digital services law enforcement work (DSA) in the European Union“, the Community Executive’s Internal Market spokesperson, Thomas Regnier, told EFE.
Brussels has opened an investigation into the platform because it considers that it has not sufficiently combated the spread of illegal content and because it believes that its algorithms are not sufficiently transparent, as required by European regulations.
The DSA allows the Commission impose a fine of up to 6% of the annual turnover to the platform provider and Brussels is currently analyzing whether its legal responsibility is only the company or Musk himself.which would increase the amount of the penalty, when taking into account all of its companies, among which are Tesla o SpaceX.
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Asked if the European Commission fears that a fine Musk can increase the Trump’s possible retaliation against the European Union, Regnier responded that the community executive “continues work to guarantee an online space in the EU based on the current legal framework.”
Brussels has also opened formal investigations into other American companies such as Meta ya su platform Instagram for possible breaches of the DSA; already Apple already Alphabet considering that they do not respect the digital markets law.
All this, at the same time that the Community Executive has created a working group to analyze the commercial and environmental consequences. Foreign Policy that the result of the elections may have in USA.
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