US President Donald Trump blasted European Union regulators for targeting Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc., describing their cases against American companies as “a form of taxation.

Apple, Meta, and Google have all faced large fines for violating EU regulations in the past, with the European Commission today completing an initial probe into X with a fine in the million dollar region likely to be levied against the social media platform.

Donald Trump called the EU's regulation on U.S. tech companies, like Meta, Google and Apple, to be "a form of taxation."

A report by Proton had revealed that Google had to pay the maximum fine for abusing its market position. Its parent company, Alphabet, paid a total fine of $2.9 billion, which also included a $2.5 billion penalty from the European Union.

Brussels is reassessing its investigations of tech groups including Apple, Meta and Google, just as the US companies urge president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against what they characterise as overzealous EU enforcement.