After the European Commission imposed a fine of €120 million on social network X on 5 December 2025 for several breaches of theDigital Services Act (DSA) (see EUROPE 13767/1), it accepted, on Wednesday 15 July, the action plan submitted by the company with a view to complying with the transparency obligations laid down in the DSA, notably by ensuring a functional advertising repository and researchers’ access to public data.
X has six months to implement the remedial measures intended to put an end to the DSA breaches and will have to submit an external and independent audit report within six months following the implementation of those measures.
“This is an important step in the right direction. The approved measures will bring researchers, civil society and the general public greater transparency about X systems and their impact on users,” said Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier.
The corrective measures to which X has committed include, in particular, enhancing the repository’s search functionality by adding new search filters, notably based on the content of advertisements and targeting criteria, displaying search results directly on the interface of the ad repository, as well as improving the repository’s response time, which will be reduced from 200 seconds to the minimum time technically achievable. X will also provide additional information on advertisements, notably their full content and the URLs to which they redirect users, and will enable access to the repository by means of an application programming interface (API).
The company also committed to reviewing and improving its procedure for examining requests submitted by researchers wishing to access its public data via its API, in order to ensure that eligible researchers are not excluded by mistake. It will provide eligible researchers with free access to data, guarantee rapid access, including to appropriate volumes of data, significantly reduce the processing time for requests and amend its terms and conditions in order to state explicitly that eligible researchers are not contractually prohibited from scraping publicly available data. X had already changed its blue-tick system, now renamed ‘Premium’, replacing the status of “verified account”. (Original version in French by Ana Pisonero Hernández)