Now number 1 in every EU country!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2025
Posted on 12/08/2025 9:26:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
X has surged in popularity after the European Union announced last week that it had fined the social media platform for violating transparency rules and other regulations.
Elon Musk, who purchased X in 2022, has celebrated X’s surging popularity and mocked the European Union’s attempts to punish the free speech platform. Musk has touted rankings that show X has become the most downloaded app across Europe since the EU announced its action against Musk’s platform.
Now number 1 in every EU country!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2025
“X is seeing record-breaking downloads in many countries in Europe,” Musk posted on Sunday.
“The European Union is not DEMOcracy–rule of the people–but rather BUREAUcracy–rule of the unelected bureaucrat!” Musk added in a post several minutes later.
The European Commission, the main governing body of the European Union, announced on Friday that it had fined X the equivalent of about $140 million for “non-compliance with transparency obligations under the [Digital Services Act].”
The commission said that X’s “blue checkmark” stamp on accounts, which is given to those accounts that pay for verification, is deceptive. The commission also accused X of illegally blocking researchers and governments from accessing parts of its data.
In a response from X’s head of product, Nikita Bier accused the commission of hypocrisy, exploiting a bug in X’s platform for advertisements to extend the reach of the commission’s video announcing its action against X. Bier said that X has since cut off the commission’s access to X’s Ad Composer tool for using it to deceive users.
“The irony of your announcement: You logged into your dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach,” Bier posted. “As you may be aware, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform. However, it seems you believe that the rules should not apply to your account. Your ad account has been terminated.”
Bier’s response was reposted by Musk.
The commission’s action against Musk has riled top officials in the Trump administration, deepening a divide between the United States and Europe over regulation and speech.
“The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on [X], it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage,” said Vice President JD Vance a day before the fine was announced.
Elon is telling the fascist EU bureaucracy to stick their fine where the sun don’t shine!
If a government cannot censor what the people living under it read, see, and hear, how will it stay in power?? /S.
You think the talk about an EU army is about Russia Russia Russia? I don't.
So the the united states of europe will just arrest or fine the users. Plenty of ways to oppress free speech. Yoooops!
Perhaps balkanizing is in Europe’s future. Have no idea how they might do it with different shades of blue. Perhaps Poland a couple others might lead the way to pink and red countries.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the EU and London took the lead as exporter of aggressive (Neo) marxist collectivist, globalist, materialist ideology, all for their own benefit and power
They have a lot of traitorous, Atlanticist 5th columnist allies in the DC deep-state as well
The constant propaganda of climate change, open-borders and mass migration, and anti-Trump Russia-gate all have their origins in London and Brussels.
"Dear American friends, Europe is your closest ally, not your problem. And we have common enemies. At least that's how it has been in the last 80 years. We need to stick to this, this is the only reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed."Now THAT"S FUNNY!Source: 11:03 AM · Dec 6, 2025
Tusk is a German traitor to Poland.
The EU needs the money for Ukraine , they fine someone when they need cash ,LOL
Elon should mail them a check for $5.00 every month until it’s paid off.
It please me again to comment by recalling:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: X, 2 March 2025
Yup.
Elon should mail them a check for $5.00 every month until it’s paid off.
“Pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty.....One dollar and nine cents!”
EU + Britain = speech and thought police. The same folks who talk about “freedom” for Ukraine then arrest a woman for praying silently outside an abortuary.
Maybe Musk should purcahse the EU and then tear it apart and sell it piece by piece as recyclable garbage...
Just buy Germany it’s the cause of this EU crap , took over without firing a shot
Starmer's and Macron's polls are crashing, and our old friends in Germany tell us Merz' gambit is irritating many alongside the AfD "rising."
The new “Axis of Evil”.
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