EU slaps X with €120 million fine for breaking online transparency rules
2025-12-06 01:05
Elon Musk’s social media company X (formerly Twitter) has been fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators. The EU claims that the platform breached its online content rules. According to the EU, under the Digital Services Act, X mislead verified blue checkmarks that deceive users on account authenticity and provide insufficient data access for researchers. This stems from an investigation into X’s compliance with DSA transparency rules two years ago. EU says that DSA has nothing to do with censorship The bloc’s tech regulator claims that users could be duped into thinking the identity of those with blue tick marks was verified, when in fact anybody can pay for a blue tick. It said it had found evidence of malicious actors abusing the system. On the other hand, the billionaire, who bought the platform for $44 billion in 2022, said the DSA rules amounted to censored speech,...
