Trump admin threatens retaliation against Spotify and others over EU tech regulation
The Office of the US Trade Representative posted on X Tuesday, claiming that US service providers have been hit by "a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives" from the EU. Earlier this month, X was fined $140 million under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), in addition to new laws, fines, and investigations that have affected US tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta over the past few years.
The unsigned post specifically named several European tech companies: Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, DHL, Mistral, Publicis, SAP, Siemens, and Spotify. It claimed that if the "discr …