Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers.

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[+] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Good that different EU bodies investigate these but for X this is just a cost of doing business unfortunately. They're not going to change anything.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Any DSA infringement in general never ends with just a fine. Businesses need to change to be compliant and must create an action plan with changes or else they risk continuous penalties as it says so in the press release:

    Failure to comply with the non-compliance decision may lead to periodic penalty payments.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Is xitter actually making any money now? If it was any other large tech company I would agree, but Twitter always seemed to struggle to stay afloat. This isn't an endorsement of twitter, I wished this fine would be enough to bring them down.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Needs more 0s

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Can we go back to saying X (formerly known as Twitter)? They so do notdeserve to claim a letter as their name.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    ![> I'm finding Xhitter €120 million

    And steeply increasing them if they don't comply, right?

    ...

    Right?](https://media.kbin.earth/67/4c/674c03ec2b4a06ebb9bf9a22b6fd7cdf3c933e3b02ad9f77d750a2be5738f496.jpg)

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Why don't we discourage using X for all European citizens?

    For the far-right users that still frequent it, we can just set up an alternative closed corner that is more moderate, populated by bots, and then have them go there, then cut off X altogether.

    Then the algorithms will make them go more moderate.

    And also,

    Needs more zeros. Make it a €100 billion fine. If Twitter can't pay it, then Musk must pay it from his own personal wealth. Corruption poisons society, and society needs to purge corruption!

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    [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    In fact, I quite like Twitter, even despite it is proprietary. But if it confines to violate our rules, it should be banned from EU.

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