EU accepts action plan by Elon Musk's X to become more transparent

The European Union, which fined Elon Musk's social media network X €120 million ($137.2 million) last year, said on Wednesday it ‌had ⁠accepted an ⁠action plan by X to comply with transparency rules under the EU's Digital Services Act.

"The European Commission has accepted X's action plan to ⁠comply with ‌transparency obligations and researchers' access to data ⁠under the Digital Services Act," it said in a statement.

"The ​approved measures represent an important step in enabling researchers, civil society and the public in general ‌to gain more transparency into X's systems, in ​particular ​to monitor ⁠X's systemic risks and to assess the platform's broader impact on ​its users and European society as a whole," it added.


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