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The EU Is Coming for X’s Paid Blue Checks
Elon Musk's paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today.
Paid-for blue checks on social media network X deceive users and are abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today, threatening the Elon Musk-owned platform with millions of dollars in fines unless the company makes changes. Enabling any account to pay for a verification breaches the EU’s Digital Services Act(DSA), European Commission officials said on Friday, because it “negatively affects users' ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts.” X now has a chance to respond to the findings. “In our view, X doesn’t comply with the DSA in key transparency areas,” EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager, said in a post on X, adding this was the first time a company had been charged with “preliminary findings” under the Digital Services Act.
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