In its first fine under the European Union's Digital Services Act, the commission called X's blue checkmark system 'deceptive' and said the paid verification system makes users vulnerable to impersonation and scams. The commission also said X's advertising repository failed to meet the DSA's requirements for transparency and accessibility. Quoting the commission's post announcing the fine, X's Bier accused the EC of logging into a 'dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer ' to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach.' ''The Commission is simply using the tools that platforms themselves are making available to our corporate accounts ' this was the case with the 'Post Composer' tool in X,' the spokesperson said. ''We expect these tools to be fully in line with the platforms' own terms and conditions, as well as with our legislative framework.' Anthony Ha is TechCrunch's weekend editor. Previously,...
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