Washington Backs Musk's Appeal of a €120m EU Fine Over X's Blue Ticks

The US is supporting Elon Musk's bid to overturn a €120m European Union fine against X, according to the BBC. The penalty rested on the EU's view that X “deceives users” by selling blue ticks without “meaningfully verifying” the accounts that carry them. The dispute is not really about whether any individual account was fake; it is about whether charging for a badge that reads as verification is itself misleading. The appeal now has a government on one side of it.