{"id":1212566,"date":"2023-12-18T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212566"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:54:20","slug":"musks-x-hit-with-eus-first-investigation-of-digital-services-act-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212566","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s X hit with EU\u2019s first investigation of Digital Services Act violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/getty-twitter-x-800x497-1.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration includes an upside-down Twitter bird logo with an \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/getty-twitter-x.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1552\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | Chris Delmas)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform (formerly Twitter) violated the Digital Services Act (DSA), which could result in <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/QANDA_20_2348\">fines<\/a> of up to 6 percent of global revenue. A <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_23_6709\">European Commission announcement<\/a> today said the agency &#8220;opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the commission&#8217;s first formal investigation under the Digital Services Act, which <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/04\/google-runs-5-of-the-19-platforms-that-must-follow-eus-new-internet-rules\/\">applies to large online platforms<\/a> and has requirements on content moderation and transparency. The step has been in the works since at least October, when a formal <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_23_4953\">request for information<\/a> was sent amid reports of widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/10\/eu-warns-musk-of-penalties-if-x-doesnt-stop-israel-hamas-disinformation\/\">Israel\/Hamas disinformation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission today said it &#8220;decided to open formal infringement proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act&#8221; after reviewing X&#8217;s replies to the request for information on topics including &#8220;the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas&#8217; terrorist attacks against Israel.&#8221; The commission\u00a0said the investigation will focus on dissemination of illegal content, the effectiveness of measures taken to combat information manipulation on X, transparency, and &#8220;a suspected deceptive design of the user interface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991751#p3\">Read 6 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991751&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1991751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk\u2019s X hit with EU\u2019s first investigation of Digital Services Act violations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chris Delmas) The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether Elon Musk&#8217;s X platform (formerly Twitter) violated the Digital Services Act (DSA), which could result in fines of up to 6 percent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1212566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1212566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}