The European Commission has officially accepted a corrective action plan submitted by social media platform X to address critical compliance failures under the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA). The decision marks a significant step toward forcing the platform to increase structural transparency and open its systems to outside scrutiny.
The agreement follows a finding by the Commission in December 2025 that X was in breach of the DSA, which resulted in a €120 million fine. Under the newly approved plan, X has committed to major upgrades of its advertising repository. The platform will introduce faster response times, enhance search capabilities, publish more comprehensive details about advertisements, and establish dedicated API access for outside parties.
Importantly, the action plan also addresses long-standing bottlenecks regarding data access for academic and civil society researchers. X has agreed to streamline and accelerate its application screening process, provide eligible researchers with data free of charge, and revise its terms of service to formally allow researchers to scrape public data. These adjustments are designed to help independent experts monitor systemic risks and evaluate the platform’s broader societal impact across Europe.
The implementation of these commitments will be subject to a strict timeline and rigorous verification. X has been given a six-month window to execute the promised changes, which will then undergo an independent external audit. X must submit the audit results to the Commission and is legally bound to fully address any recommendations or shortcomings identified by the auditors.
While the Commission accepted the plan, the process highlighted lingering regulatory skepticism. The Board for Digital Services, which was formally consulted during the evaluation, issued an opinion on June 15 stating that X’s proposed audit measures and the overall action plan were still insufficient to fully resolve the infractions. In response to the Board’s warnings, the Commission clarified several technical requirements that X must address during implementation. The EU executive plans to maintain an enhanced supervision regime over the next six months to closely track X’s progress