The European Commission has fined X $140 million for not verifying its "verified" users, lack of transparency in ads and not allowing access to data.

Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation that once again drew criticism from the U.

EU ramped up antitrust and DMA enforcement against Big Tech in 2025, launching major probes and record fines as tensions with US tech giants and Washington intensifed.

The European Commission is launching an in-depth investigation into Meta WhatsApp’s AI policy could be hampering AI chatbot competition Meta could face a fine of $16.5 billion The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Meta over whether its WhatsApp AI policy restricts competition by blocking rival AI chatbot providers.

In doling out the first ever penalty under the Digital Services Act, the European Commission concluded that X's paid-for blue tick symbol misled users

EU regulators launched an antitrust investigation into Meta Platforms on Thursday and may even temporarily halt its rollout of artificial intelligence features in its WhatsApp messenger that would block rivals,

“As a result of the new policy, competing AI providers may be blocked from reaching their customers through WhatsApp,” says the European Commission’s announcement. “On the other hand, Meta’s own AI service ‘Meta AI’ would remain accessible to users on the platform.”

The EU said Thursday it had opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches the bloc's competition rules.