"The company's Global Government Affairs team said in a Friday post that it had filed an appeal with the General Court of the European Union to challenge the 120-million Euro fine imposed by the commission in December for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). "This EU Decision resulted from an incomplete and superficial investigation, grave procedural errors, a tortured interpretation of the obligations under the DSA, and systematic breaches of rights of defence and basic due process requirements suggesting prosecutorial bias," the team wrote."
"The commission, the European Union's independent executive body, accused X of violating transparency requirements and deceiving users through the design of its verification program. Allowing anyone to pay for a blue checkmark made it difficult for users to determine the authenticity of accounts on the platform, they claimed. "Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU," Henna Virkkunen, the bloc's executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy,"
X filed an appeal with the General Court of the European Union to contest a 120-million Euro fine imposed by the European Commission for alleged Digital Services Act violations. The appeal challenges the commission's investigation as incomplete, procedurally flawed, and legally strained, citing breaches of defence rights and due process. The commission reported that X's verification program and ad transparency practices deceived users by making account authenticity unclear through paid blue checkmarks. The fine was the first enforcement under the DSA. The EU opened an investigation in December 2023 into risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and researcher data access.
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