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The European Union has once again underlined its willingness to stand up to big technology companies after its executive arm, the European Commission, fined Elon Musk's social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) forbreaches of the bloc's digital regulations, known as the Digital Services Act.

欧盟再次强调其对抗科技巨头的决心。欧盟执行机构欧盟委员会以违反《数字服务法》为由，对埃隆·马斯克旗下的社交媒体平台X处以1.2亿欧元（约合1.4亿美元）罚款。

The 27-member bloc has had frequentrun-ins with several of the United States-based technology companies that dominate the digital landscape, over issues including market share and monopolies, but this particular case relates to noncompliance with rules on transparency about harmful or illegal content.

这个由27个成员国组成的集团，在市场份额和垄断等问题上，曾多次与主导数字领域的多家美国科技公司发生冲突，但此案涉及的是违反关于有害或非法内容透明度规则的行为。

The areas where the EU found shortcomings include excessive delays in providing information about advert placers, exposing X users to potentially misleading or false information, the placing of unnecessary barriers in the way of accessing public data, and blue tick accounts.

欧盟发现存在缺陷的领域包括：提供广告投放者信息时过度延迟、使X用户暴露于可能误导性或虚假信息中、在获取公共数据时设置不必要的障碍，以及蓝勾认证账户问题。

Under the company's former name of Twitter, a blue tick was a badge of verification of the account owner, and was particularly used by trusted or authoritative names and organizations.

在该公司原名Twitter时期，蓝色认证标记是账户所有者的身份验证徽章，尤其用于可信赖或权威的个人及机构。

Since the company was bought and rebranded by Musk in 2022, blue ticks have been available to anyone who pays, with no real effort made to verify the account holder, opening users up to the danger of misleading information.

自2022年该公司被马斯克收购并更名后，付费用户即可获得蓝标认证，且平台并未真正努力核实账户持有者身份，这使得用户面临被误导信息的风险。

A year ago, the European Federation of Journalists left X, saying the site "no longer serves the public interest at all, but the particular ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies", adding that it had become "the preferredvector for conspiracy theories, racism, far-right ideas and misogynistic rhetoric".

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