Musk, always eager to clap back at criticism, wasn’t having that.
Jourová, actually, is “the epitome of banal, bureaucratic evil,” the tech chief said on his X account late Thursday.
Musk has been on a collision course with European officials, fighting regulators and governments on multiple fronts.
The tech tycoon bought Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as X. He has attracted criticism for his management of the platform, with European politicians and civil society saying he has allowed hate speech to fester on the site.
The latest development in his ongoing battle with the EU is a possible move by the European Commission to take into account his other companies, including SpaceX and Neuralink, when it calculates a potential fine against X for breaches of the bloc’s content moderation law.