X is the first company, that's no surprise, the first company to be fined under the European Union's Digital Services Act, a sweeping law intended to force large Internet companies to protect their platforms against manipulation and illicit content. The Trump administration has criticized the policy as an attack on free speech. And American tech firms, regulators in Brussels said the penalty against X was not about free speech, but about the company's lack of controls to prevent the platform from being abused. (05:05–05:10)
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Asserts that the Trump administration criticized the EU policy as an attack on free speech.
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