• by Colin Kirkland , July 15, 2026

One year after the European Union issued X a fine of €120 million for violations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission said on Wednesday that it has approved an action plan shared by the social-media company to comply with regional regulations.

“The European Commission has accepted X’s action plan to comply with transparency obligations and researchers’ access to data under the Digital Services Act,” the group said in a statement, adding that X’s systemic risks should be monitored “to assess the platform’s broader impact on its users and European society as a whole.”

To comply with the DSA, X has agreed to a variety of corrective measures.

These include the addition of more search filters based on ad content and targeting criteria, displaying search results directly on the ad-repository interface, providing users with more information about advertisements; and other implementations.

The Commission originally fined X in 2025 -- the EU's first fine issued under the DSA -- due to the platform's alleged "deceptive design of its 'blue checkmark'," a "lack of transparency" around the ad repository, and a "failure to provide access to public data for researchers."

In response, X owner Elon Musk shut down the Commission’s ad account, although the group had suspended its paid advertising on X two years prior.

Now, the regulatory group expects X to better accommodate researchers by improving its screening process for researchers to access its public data via its API, free-of-charge, while also significantly reducing the processing time for researcher applications.

X has six months to implement its approved action plan, which will be subjected to an external and independent audit.