We have opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the DSA in areas linked to:

🔹 risk management,
🔹 content moderation
🔹 dark patterns
🔹 advertising transparency
🔹 data access for researchers

These are the first formal proceedings we launched to enforce the first EU-wide horizontal framework for online platforms’ responsibility, just 3 years from its proposal.

Find out more about the next steps: europa.eu/!mNKnx4

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Androcat
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@EU_Commission I would recommend taking the view that such online platforms should be regarded as Publishers for any content that they actively promote to any user - including content algorithmically promoted.

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mr brown :unverified:

@EU_Commission yes, thanks, we've just read our Commissioner #Breton posting this message on his verified #X profile

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Pol Dellaiera

@EU_Commission Finally :) Thanks!

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Marco Frasca

@EU_Commission thank you! I hope all of your members will leave that platform soon

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Pat

@EU_Commission Thank you! After watching John Oliver's episode just now, I'm even more grateful this work is being done.

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Oliver Schafeld

Clean up that #X-mess and make #Xmas come early this year. 😁🤞🎄

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James Widman

@EU_Commission sorry, but what does the placeholder ‘X’ stand for in this context?

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@EU_Commission hell yes may you move with all the energy and power of the suns

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Firecat

@EU_Commission You should take action against X not formal proceedings. We know they don’t offer content moderation, there’s no management because Elon controls it while the CEO is the scapegoat, dark patterns in Elons banking agreements to give money should be looked into, there’s no advertising transparency we bearly know who these companies are and who they represent. Data can’t be accessed which is obviously because of Elon trying to make profit.

Action now, not another day longer.

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Adlangx

@EU_Commission The answer is yes.

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MylesRyden

@EU_Commission

Be careful what you wish for here. I would think that not many people on Mastodon would be sad to see Xhitter banned in Europe. But similar logic could also ban Meta and Google (or at least YouTube.)

Personally, I do feel that all of these actors have made the world a worse place over the last 10 years and perhaps the threat of banning would lead to some kind of reform that would do us good.

On the other hand millions of people are literally or figuratively addicted to these platforms and the next generation could be even worse.

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Pepper The Vixen🏳️‍⚧️🦯

@EU_Commission This is good }news. Bring the hammer down on this pileup.

In the future please don't use emojis as bullet points. They slow down screen reader users a lot. Try using dashes instead

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pafurijaz

@EU_Commission I think soon X will be not available in the EU!

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Matej

@EU_Commission
I really don’t like what Twitter is today and how Musk runs it. But I don’t support this…

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Kevin Russell

@EU_Commission

6% of 3 Billion dollars is 180 million dollars. Would that be yearly?

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David

@EU_Commission in the meantime #Facebook and #Instagram from #meta are coercing users that opted out their private data abuse (so they could not use their data for targeted advertisement or sent it outside the EU), with a blocking paywall asking to give full permission to do that with their private data or pay 9$ per month and per account to keep using their apps without advertisement.

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Nathan

@EU_Commission hey Europe. Use the term 'shadow patterns', next.

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