The Bottom Line: X must implement transparency and research access measures within six months and demonstrate these through an independent audit that the Commission will review.
The European Commission has accepted an action plan from X to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA). The plan aims to enable X to fulfill transparency obligations and provide researchers with access to platform data.
The background to these measures is a Commission decision from December 2025, which warned X of DSA violations and imposed a fine. Following this, X committed to implementing concrete improvements in several areas: the ads repository will be upgraded with improved search functionality and faster response times. X will additionally publish more information about ads and enable access via an API.
In the area of researcher access, X announced that it will improve and accelerate the screening process for applications, provide free data access, and modify terms of use to not contractually prohibit researchers from scraping public data. These measures are intended to enable researchers, civil society, and the public to monitor X’s systems more transparently and thus assess systemic risks and the impact of the platform on users and European society.
The Digital Services Board issued an opinion on X’s action plan on 15 June and assessed the planned changes as only partially adequate. In particular, the audit measures and thus the overall plan were deemed insufficient to remediate the identified violations. The Commission took this critical assessment into account and set out several clarifications for X that must be observed during implementation.
X has six months to implement the measures and subsequently initiate an audit and submit its results to the Commission. An independent external auditor will assess the changes. Should the audit contain recommendations, X must implement them fully. The Commission will closely monitor progress and regularly report to the Digital Services Board and DSA coordinators on the status of implementation.
Source: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu · Published 16 July 2026
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