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Several elder figures of the administration, including US vice-president JD Vance, person criticised the EU’s fining X. Musk is 1 of the largest donors to President Trump and his favoured Republican candidates up of the midterm elections.
In its statement, the DOJ said the DSA had improperly “extended ineligible scrutiny to Mr Musk himself arsenic a backstage idiosyncratic and implicated wholly abstracted and unrelated American firm entities nether his ownership
The DOJ besides asserted that the Commission inappropriately calculated the good based connected the combined planetary yearly gross of different companies that Musk controlled, alternatively than what X earned wrong its jurisdiction.
In March 2025, X was archetypal merged with Musk’s artificial quality institution xAI, which was subsequently acquired by his rocket shaper SpaceX up of its nationalist listing successful June this year.
SpaceX declined to comment.
Separately, the EU is investigating X for different imaginable breaches nether the DSA, including whether the institution has assessed and mitigated risks associated with the integration of its AI chatbot Grok into X for EU users.
Apple is besides appealing a €500 cardinal good imposed nether the EU’s related Digital Markets Act for anti-competitive behaviour successful its app store.
Trump has railed against the penalties, calling them “overseas extortion” and called them a “form of taxation.” During his archetypal administration, the president unsuccessfully tried to power Apple’s situation against a €13 cardinal Irish taxation bill.
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