EU hits Elon Musks X with 120 million euro fine for breaching blocs social media law

LONDON — European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for breaches of the bloc’s digital regulations that they said could leave users exposed to scams and manipulation.

The European Commission issued its decision following an investigation it opened two years ago into X under the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Services Act. Also known as the DSA, its a sweeping rulebook that requires platforms to take more responsibility for protecting European users and cleaning up harmful or illegal content and…