Olivia Solon

If illegal images are being posted to X, action does need to be taken.

So the law is something called the Digital Services Act, which is a kind of new rulebook for digital platforms across Europe.

And the main thing that the commission took issue with and that they find Elon Musk's ex for today was three things.

There was the blue tick and the fact that it was changed to a paid feature where it used to be a sort of sign that someone was kind of

authority on something.

Then they'd also stonewalled giving researchers access to data, and they didn't set up an advertising repository that provided transparency to researchers either.

So the fine today was kind of generally smaller than people had expected, but there are still some other issues that the commission's investigating, some more kind of serious issues around how it polices illegal content, election disinformation, and its community notes

system for content moderation.