Notable Quotes
“With the DSA’s first non‑compliance decision, we are holding X responsible for undermining users’ rights and evading accountability.” ([europeaninterest.eu](https://www.europeaninterest.eu/digital-services-act-commission-fines-x-for-violating-transparency-obligations/?utm_source=openai))
“Compliance prevents fines. The DSA protects users — deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU.” ([reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/eu-fines-x-140-mln-breaching-online-content-rules-tiktok-settles-with-2025-12-05/?utm_source=openai))
Virkkunen said the EU’s first DSA non‑compliance decision is about ‘holding X responsible for undermining users’ rights and evading accountability,’ not censoring speech. ([europeaninterest.eu](https://www.europeaninterest.eu/digital-services-act-commission-fines-x-for-violating-transparency-obligations/?utm_source=openai))
She has repeatedly stressed that the DSA ‘has transparency at its very core’ and that large platforms must open their systems to scrutiny by regulators and researchers. ([forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2024/07/12/european-commission-finds-x-misleads-users-in-breach-of-dsa/?utm_source=openai))