X Claims It Banned the European Commission’s Ad Account. It Says It Wasn’t Using Ads

On Saturday, X says it slapped the European Commission with a ban on its X ad account over what it has deemed a rule violation. Coincidentally enough, the European Commission had just slapped that social media platform with a fine of about $140 Million a day earlier for alleged deceptiveness and lack of transparency, and for allegedly withholding necessary data disclosures.

But the European Commission says it doesn’t pay for ads on X anyway—a Commission policy that has stood for…