By Ellen O’Regan
Publication Date: 2026-02-17 00:01:00
This could spark another dispute between the US and EU over enforcement of European technology regulations. Senior officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in December criticized the European Union’s move to impose a 120 million euro fine for violations of the bloc’s content moderation framework, the Digital Services Act.
The Irish regulator is responsible for enforcing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across many of the global tech giants that have their European headquarters in Ireland. It has the power to impose fines on X of up to 4 percent of annual worldwide turnover.
The Data Protection Commission “has launched a large-scale investigation into compliance with (the international unity of
Doyle said the Data Protection Commission had been working with X since media reports about…
