{"id":40163,"date":"2025-12-05T12:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/elon-musks-x-fined-140-million-by-eu-over-deceptive-blue-checkmarks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:11:20","slug":"elon-musks-x-fined-140-million-by-eu-over-deceptive-blue-checkmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/elon-musks-x-fined-140-million-by-eu-over-deceptive-blue-checkmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s X fined $140 million by EU over &#8216;deceptive&#8217; blue checkmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6909cc89599d46a4ccc165b3?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Elon Musk\"\/><figcaption>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has to hit a series of ambitious goals to unlock the full $1 trillion pay package.<\/p>\n<p>JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The European Union has hit Elon Musk&#039;s X with a $140 million fine.<\/li>\n<li>The bloc said the social media platform&#039;s blue checkmark system exposes users to scams.<\/li>\n<li>Musk received support from US Vice President JD Vance, who warned the EU to stop &quot;attacking American companies.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk is set for another battle with the European Union after the bloc fined his social media site X.<\/p>\n<p>The EU said on Friday it had issued a fine of \u20ac120 million ($140 million) to X over a number of violations, including the &quot;deceptive design&quot; of the site&#039;s blue checkmarks.<\/p>\n<p>X did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, Musk reposted an X post from US Vice President JD Vance, who warned the EU against fining Musk&#039;s company and said the bloc should avoid &quot;attacking American companies over garbage.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Check back for further updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has to hit a series of ambitious goals to unlock the full $1 trillion pay package. JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images The European Union has hit Elon Musk&#039;s X with a $140 million fine. The bloc said the social media platform&#039;s blue checkmark system exposes users to scams. Musk received support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}