"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, said in a statement at the time."
X filed an appeal with the General Court of the European Union against a 120-million Euro fine from the European Commission, challenging a finding of Digital Services Act violation. X's Global Government Affairs team alleged an incomplete and superficial investigation, grave procedural errors, misinterpretation of DSA obligations, and breaches of defence rights suggesting prosecutorial bias. The Commission accused X of violating transparency requirements and deceiving users through its paid verification program by making account authenticity harder to determine. The DSA requires platforms to limit illegal content, protect minors, ensure advertising transparency, and provide researcher data access. The EU opened a December 2023 probe into X's risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency, and researcher access.
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