BRUSSELS, Belgium: Elon Musk´s X has offered to make changes to its blue checkmark for “verified” accounts, a European Commission spokesman said on Friday, after the platform received a 120-million-euro ($138 million) fine.
The European Union slapped the fine in December on X for breaking its digital rules including through the “deceptive design” of its blue checkmark.
“X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue checkmark. The commission will now carefully assess the proposed remedies,” EU spokesman for digital affairs Thomas Regnier said.
He did not provide details about what X had submitted.
X risked periodic financial penalties, had it not submitted any remedy.
“We have to value the fact that after a constructive exchange with the company, the company has taken its obligation seriously and has submitted us remedies,” Regnier told reporters in Brussels.
When contacted by AFP, X did not provide comment immediately.
Blue checkmarks, long free of charge at what was previously known as Twitter, were intended to signal the identity of certain users -- such as celebrities, journalists and politicians -- had been verified in an effort to build trust in the platform. But after Musk bought the platform, he allowed users to pay to get one.
