The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Person

Thierry Breton (European Commissioner for the Internal Market, August 2024)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-4.10: On 12 August 2024 Commissioner Breton wrote to X's owner that the European Commission would not hesitate to make full use of its toolbox, including interim measures, and on 18 February 2025 the Commission wrote that the Digital Services Act does not regulate speech. The Commission's first non-compliance decision under the Act, against X on 5 December 2025, fined X 120 million euros for blue-checkmark design, its advertising repository and researcher data access, and did not concern the removal of any post.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 1155 12 August 2024. European Commission (Commissioner for the Internal Market): Letter from Commissioner Thierry Breton to Elon Musk (X Corp.), 12 August 2024 (Exhibit 16 to the House Judiciary report of 25 July 2025)