US joins Elon Musk fight against €120m EU fine

By Juliet Umeh, Agency report
The United States Government has joined billionaire Elon Musk’s legal battle against the European Union (EU) seeking to overturn a €120 million fine imposed on his social media platform, X, over alleged breaches of the bloc’s digital rules.
The US Department of Justice, DOJ, has asked the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union for permission to intervene in support of X and Musk in their bid to annul the European Commission’s December 2025 decision.
The move raises the stakes in an increasingly contentious debate between Washington and Brussels over the regulation of American technology companies operating in Europe.
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