Musk is clearly taking this personally and not treating it like just another legal fight. After the EU hit X with a €120 million fine, he lashed out and even talked about abolishing the EU altogether. He says these rules are basically censorship, while European regulators say they are just trying to protect people from harmful or deceptive content. Since Ireland is the main watchdog for X, whatever happens here could end up shaping how these rules get enforced across the rest of Europe.
They have targeted me personally, so they will get the same in return
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2025
Elon Musk’s social-media platform X has now launched five judicial reviews against the Irish media regulator, with a sixth expected before Christmas.
The latest case has been taken in the name of Musk himself, as he tries to stop an investigation into how X deals with appeals from the public about content moderation decisions.
Last month, Coimisiún na Meán announced that its investigations team had launched an inquiry into whether X has breached Article 20 of the Digital Services Act ( DSA). It will be checking whether people are able to appeal X’s decisions not to remove content.
The regulator, which said the European Commission is co-operating in the investigation, can apply a fine of up to 6pc of the turnover of a company found to be in breach of the DSA.
Musk and his parent company X Holding Corporation, represented by A&L Goodbody, have applied to the High Court to have the investigation stopped.