X’s head of product, Nikita Beer, responded to the European Commission this weekend after the European Commission fined the social media company €120 million (about $140 million).
In its first fine under EU digital services law, the Commission described X’s blue checkmark system as “deceptive” and said the paid verification system made users vulnerable to impersonation and fraud. The Commission also said that the X ad repository failed to meet the DSA’s requirements for transparency and accessibility.
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Quoted from Committee function In announcing the fine, X’s Bier accused the European Commission of logging into a “dormant advertising account to take advantage of a vulnerability in our ad creation tool – to post a link that tricks users into thinking it is a video and to artificially increase its reach.”
“As you know, X believes everyone should have an equal voice on our platform.” Bear wrote. “However, you seem to think that the rules should not apply to your account.”
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As a result, he said the committee’s advertising account had been “terminated.” Bear said afterward “This exploit has never been abused in this way before” and has since been patched.
A European Commission spokesperson told TechCrunch that the commission “always uses all social media platforms in good faith.”
“The Commission simply uses the tools provided by the platforms themselves for our company accounts – this was the case with the Post Composer tool in X,” the spokesperson said. “We expect these tools to be fully compliant with the platforms’ terms and conditions, as well as with our legislative framework.”
The spokesperson added that the Commission suspended paid advertising on X in October 2023, and this suspension remains in effect.
This post has been updated with comments from a European Commission spokesperson.
