
Transatlantic Tensions Surge After X Fine and Harsh New U.S. Security Strategy
While EU officials gave decidedly measured responses, other European voices called the Trump administration “dangerous” and “no longer an ally.”

While EU officials gave decidedly measured responses, other European voices called the Trump administration “dangerous” and “no longer an ally.”

Marco Rubio described the European Commission’s penalty as “an attack on all American tech platforms.”

Brussels officials insist the penalty imposed on X is about compliance, not restricting free speech.

The incident was widely condemned even by the German left-wing politicians, who called the situation “absurd and dangerous.”

Prosecutors labelled the company an “organised crime group”

Erdogan’s state machinery aims to hunt down Grok after its computer-generated phrases insult the President—and his mother.
The U.S. vice president’s debut on the progressive-friendly Twitter rival lasted minutes before Bluesky’s systems flagged him as a fake. He wasn’t.

As EU officials defend the Digital Services Act, a deeper concern emerges: the quiet convergence of state and corporate power in policing digital discourse.

Von der Leyen warned X and Meta that the EU will enforce its disinformation rules, regardless of who’s the CEO or what Washington says.

Sanctions “an unprecedented attack on free speech”