Tycoon Elon Musk called on Saturday for the “abolition” of the European Union after denouncing that its bureaucratic system is “slowly suffocating Europe”. This Saturday, Musk published a series of messages against the European Union after, the day before, the European Commission announced a fine of 120 million euros to the social network he owns for the “misleading design” of its blue account verification brand.
This brand is perceived as a label of authenticity by users despite the fact that Your access is discretionarywhich violates the obligations of the European Digital Services Act (DSA).
The sanction announced by Brussels also responds to other irregularities sanctioned by the DSA such as lack of transparency in your ad repository and failure to comply with their obligation to provide access to data to researchers.
A European Commission that “worships the god of bureaucracy and suffocates the people of Europe”, according to Musk in his series of brief messages published throughout the morning. “The bureaucracy of the European Union,” he insisted, “is slowly suffocating Europe.”
It is for this reason that he reiterated: “the EU should be abolished and sovereignty should be returned to individual countriesso that governments can better represent their people”, in a message that he ended up posting at the top of his account and which will therefore be the first that his almost 230 million followers will read.