X (nee Twitter) has become the first company to be fined under the European Union’s Digital Service Act (DSA). The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>European Commission announced that X will be fined €120 million (about $140 million) and could face “periodic penalty payments” if the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/elon-musk” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/elon-musk”>Elon Musk-owned platform fails to comply with the DSA.
The fine stems from what the EU considers three violations: deceptive design around the ‘blue checkmark’, failure to provide public data to researchers, and a lack of transparency and…
