“We have seen an alarming increase in disinformation and hate speech on several social media platforms in recent weeks,” Johannes Bahrke, a European Commission spokesperson, said Friday.
That means, should the European Commission find that X has broken DSA rules, the company could be fined as much as $180 million.
So far, only two states, Italy and Hungary, have done so, a commission spokesperson told CNN.
The European Commission, which recently sounded the alarm on a sharp rise in antisemitism in Europe, has so far stopped short of criticizing Musk directly.
A commission spokesperson declined to comment to CNN on Musk’s X post from last Wednesday.
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