Bethany Bell

He said we shouldn't be trying to make war.

It's about peace.

The world should be moving away from armed struggle, not towards it.

There are three main reasons why the European Commission has found after a two-year investigation that Elon Musk's social network X is not compliant with EU law.

It said the blue ticks that the network uses are deceptive because they used to be a sign that an account holder had been verified by the platform itself.

And now they're a sign that someone has subscribed.

But what the EC says is that anybody could subscribe online.

and then potentially be a scammer or be impersonating someone else.

And so they're not a reliable mark of authenticity anymore.

It also said that the advertising policies weren't transparent enough.

There were blurred lines between content and adverts, and it wasn't always clear how the adverts were being targeted.

And finally, it said X had not been sharing data with researchers, which is another component of the EU law.

We have not yet had a comment from X itself.

To them, it's not an awful lot of money.

And it could have been a lot worse, actually.

The fine can be up to 6% of annual turnover.

The European Commission says it hasn't gone for that.

It's gone for a modest fine that it feels is proportionate.

What X has to do now is to start showing that it is prepared to comply with the law.

And if it doesn't, it might face further fines down the line.