{"id":564267,"date":"2026-07-23T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564267\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:16:21","slug":"x-launches-fresh-court-challenges-against-coimisiun-na-mean-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564267\/","title":{"rendered":"X launches fresh court challenges against Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billionaire Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s social media business X<\/a> is poised for another High Court clash with Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n <\/a>after launching legal challenges to decisions taken by the Irish regulator this week.<\/p>\n

X, formerly known as Twitter, has taken several High Court<\/a> cases in recent months against the commission, which is responsible for regulating the social media giant\u2019s EU activities. <\/p>\n

Court filings lodged days ago show that X Internet Unlimited Company is seeking judicial reviews of four decisions by the commission.<\/p>\n

The challenges \u201cmost likely\u201d relate to adjudications made by the regulator on complaints against X, according to a source familiar with the industry.<\/p>\n

Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n regulates X\u2019s activities throughout the EU as the multinational\u2019s European business is headquartered in the Republic.<\/p>\n

The organisation regularly deals with complaints on a wide range of issues originating in the Republic and other EU states, whose authorities refer them to the Irish commission.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0X accuses Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n of \u2018kicking the can down the road\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Judicial reviews generally involve plaintiffs asking a High Court judge to scrutinise decisions by lower courts or public bodies and can result in getting those rulings overturned.<\/p>\n

X lodged the papers initiating the High Court challenges this week. The court has yet to set a date to hear the cases.<\/p>\n

Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n said it was aware that X had filed the proceedings but could not comment as it had not seen the documents.<\/p>\n

\"\"Aer Lingus job cuts and Ryanair\u2019s profits plunge – what is happening in the Irish aviation sector?<\/p>\n

X is engaged in several other legal battles against the regulator. Musk is a plaintiff in one of the cases, along with the group\u2019s parent, X Holdings Corp.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month the High Court heard another challenge by X to a commission investigation into the social media giant late last year under Europe\u2019 Digital Services Act.<\/p>\n

In November Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n announced it was investigating whether X had breached article 20 of the act. That requires social media platforms to provide users with effective internal complaint-handling systems allowing them to appeal decisions taken by the platforms.<\/p>\n

Those decisions can include whether or not to remove or prevent access to material on the sites, or to suspend or terminate accounts.<\/p>\n

The regulator is also investigating other social media multinationals with European businesses based in the Republic.<\/p>\n

Musk bought X for $44 billion (\u20ac38.57 billion) in October 2022. He immediately took the company private and dismissed many of its executives. <\/p>\n

The billionaire is a shareholder in and chief executive of electric car maker Tesla and SpaceX, whose businesses include Starlink. He is a former adviser to US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s social media business X is poised for another High Court clash with Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,3584,605,73,61,60,58,606],"class_list":["post-564267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-coimisiun-na-mean","tag-elon-musk","tag-high-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-social-media","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}