Following the 120 million euro fine imposed in December 2025, the European Commission has accepted the action plan presented by X to comply with the transparency and data access obligations for researchers required by the Digital Services Act (Dsa).
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Elon Musk’s social platform will have six months to implement the measures, including enhancing the ad archive, new search functions, access via API, and free data for researchers. “This is an important step in the right direction,” commented a Commission spokesperson.
“The approved measures,” the spokesperson explained, “will allow researchers, civil society, and the general public to gain greater transparency on X’s systems and their impact on users.”
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Regarding the advertising registry, X has committed to introducing new search filters based, among other things, on the content and targeting criteria of ads, displaying results directly in the database interface instead of via Excel files, reducing search response times, publishing the full content of ads and destination web addresses, and making the registry accessible also via API.
On the data access front for research, the platform will have to improve the evaluation system for requests submitted by researchers, ensure free access to eligible parties, significantly reduce authorization times, and modify the terms of use to clarify that authorized researchers are not contractually prohibited from scraping publicly available data.
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