Twitter is now facing a whopping $30 billion fine in Germany

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16. Dave Karpf writes about this too

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/how-long-does-twitter-have-left

...European regulators have also sent repeat warnings that, if the company is in violation of the Digital Services Act, it will face several hundred million dollars in fines. Europe has a stronger regulatory state than the U.S. They do not fuck around.

The fines are coming. They will not be small. Between US and EU violations, I’d guess Twitter’s tab will be in the low single-digit billions. Might be more, might be less.

Regulatory investigations take time, but not as much time as the US legal system. And, again, these are broad-daylight violations. Twitter basically doesn’t have a Trust and Safety team anymore. Twitter’s compliance team is at least as decimated as all its other teams. The company has fired everyone who isn’t sufficiently obsequious to Elon. Elon’s management philosophy is a chaotic mix of lying and cyberbullying employees. That’s not going to earn him much goodwill from regulators...

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