Musk's X Challenges EU Fine in First DSA Court Appeal

"X said Friday that it filed an appeal at the General Court of the European Union to challenge an approximately $140 million penalty imposed by the European Commission in December. The company's Global Government Affairs team called the EU action the product of an "incomplete and superficial investigation" and cited "grave procedural errors," a "tortured interpretation" of DSA obligations, and "systematic breaches of rights of defense and basic due process requirements suggesting prosecutorial bias.""

"The European Commission has said X breached DSA transparency obligations tied to the design of its "blue checkmark," the transparency of its advertising repository, and access to public data for researchers. EU officials have argued that X's shift to a paid verification model made it harder for users to judge whether accounts were authentic, and that ad and data-access shortcomings undermined oversight of the platform."

X filed an appeal at the General Court of the European Union to challenge an approximately $140 million penalty imposed by the European Commission. X's Global Government Affairs team described the EU action as the product of an "incomplete and superficial investigation," alleging "grave procedural errors," a "tortured interpretation" of DSA obligations, and "systematic breaches of rights of defense and basic due process requirements suggesting prosecutorial bias." The European Commission said X breached DSA transparency obligations related to the blue checkmark design, advertising repository transparency, and researcher public-data access. The EU has also opened separate DSA probes into Grok and X's recommender systems over risk assessment and mitigation.

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