US seeks to join Musk's fight against EU fine - EWN

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday asked the European Union's General Court to let it intervene on the side of Elon Musk and his social media platform X, which are seeking to overturn a fine for breaching the bloc's online content rules.

Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter, are challenging a 120-million-euro ($136 million) penalty imposed by Brussels under its landmark digital rules.

The US Justice Department said it had filed an application at the EU's second-highest court backing Musk and X's bid to annul the European Commission's December 2025 decision, the first fine ever issued under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The DSA, which fully took effect in 2024, requires online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content and to be more transparent about how their systems work.

Violations can bring fines of up to six percent of a company's global annual turnover.

The law has become a flashpoint between Washington and Brussels. President Donald Trump's administration and the US tech industry have cast it as a tool of censorship, a charge the EU rejects.