Brussels (EuroEFE).- The European Commission (EC) reported this Wednesday that it has accepted the measures proposed by the X platform to remedy its infringement of EU regulations related to its blue verification mark, the insufficient transparency of its advertising repository, and the lack of access to public data for researchers.
Brussels fined Elon Musk’s firm in December 2025 with 120 million for failing to meet its transparency obligations due to the “deceptive design” of its blue checkmark and the other two cited irregularities, which constituted a breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The European Commission has now accepted X’s action plan to comply with transparency obligations and researcher access to data, under the aforementioned regulation.
An “important step”
The approved measures “represent an important step for researchers, civil society, and the general public to obtain greater transparency regarding X’s systems, in particular to monitor X’s systemic risks and assess the platform’s overall impact on its users and on European society as a whole,” the EC stated in a press release.
Among the corrective measures to which X commits is “improving the repository’s search functionality by introducing additional search filters, such as those based on ad content and targeting criteria,” as well as “displaying search results directly in the ad repository interface instead of in separate Excel spreadsheets.”
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Community spokesperson Thomas Regnier stated that this is “an important step in the right direction,” and emphasized that the approved measures “will allow researchers, civil society, and the general public to obtain greater transparency regarding X’s systems and their impact on users.”
Other aspects
Regarding the infringement related to the “deceptive design” of its verification checkmark, for which Musk’s firm has not presented new corrective proposals, the spokesperson noted that X “had already modified it publicly, changing it from being called ‘Verified status’ to ‘Premium’ from now on.”
The modifications accepted by the EC will be subject to an external and independent audit, and X will have six months to execute them.
