X deactivated the European Commission’s advertising account after fining the company €120 million

X’s head of product, Nikita Beer, responded to the European Commission this weekend after the European Commission fined the social media company €120 million (about $140 million).

In its first fine under EU digital services law, the Commission called The Commission also said that the X ad repository failed to meet the DSA’s requirements for transparency and accessibility.

The commission said Company

After the fine was announced, X’s owner, Elon Musk, called it “nonsense” and also posted, “How long before the EU disappears? Abolish the EU.”

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Citing the Commission publication announcing the fine, X’s Bier accused the European Commission of logging into a “dormant advertising account to take advantage of a vulnerability in our copywriter – to post a link that tricks users into thinking it is a video and to artificially increase its reach.”

“As you know, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform,” Pierre wrote. “However, you seem to think that the rules should not apply to your account.”

As a result, he said the committee’s advertising account had been “terminated.” Pierre then said the exploit had “never been abused in this way before” and has since been patched.

TechCrunch has reached out to a European Commission spokesperson for comment.

While the commission may have lost the ability to buy ads on