Cybersecurity & Tech

Lawfare Live: The EU Fines X 120 M Euros - What Comes Next?

Kate Klonick, Renée DiResta
Friday, December 5, 2025, 8:00 AM
Watch the discussion at 11am on Dec. 5.

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The European Commission announced today that they are fining X 120 M Euros for impersonation scams with “verification,” broken advertising transparency system, and blocking researchers from its platform.

On Dec. 5 at 11 am ET, Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Contributor Renee DiResta will analyze the decision, what happens next, and how this fits into the geopolitical struggle over free speech.

Kate Klonick is an Associate Professor at St. John’s University Law School, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, Harvard Berkman Klein Center and a Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Humane Studies. Her writing on online speech, freedom of expression, and private internet platform governance has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post and numerous other publications. For the 2023-2024 academic year, she was a Fulbright Schuman Innovation Scholar in the European Union where she was a Visiting Professor at SciencesPo and University of Amsterdam researching and writing about the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.
Renée DiResta is an Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown. She is a contributing editor at Lawfare.
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