X, owned by Elon Musk, was hit with a total of €1,670,000,000 in DSA penalties after a two-year probe, and regulators ordered X to create a transparent advertising database and clarify its verification procedures within 60 days or face further enforcement.Musk rejected a €120,000,000 fine as "absurd", pinned the profile message "The EU should be abolished", and appeared in a T-shirt bearing the phrase "ockupera mars", while officials cited gaps in ad funding disclosures, audience targeting and researcher access.Marco Rubio, JD Vance and Ted Cruz criticized the measures and urged Donald Trump to respond with sanctions, Chris Landau called the enforcement a "loyalty test", and Radoslaw Sikorski alongside Dmitrij Medvedev also publicly commented, illustrating the wider political backlash.