Mathias Vermeulen
@mathver.bsky.social
EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
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X isn’t being penalised for hosting lawful speech. It is being penalised for business practices that make fraud easier and transparency harder. In any other sector, a product that enables impersonation or conceals the identity of advertisers would be recalled.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
X isn’t being penalised for hosting lawful speech. It is being penalised for business practices that make fraud easier and transparency harder. In any other sector, a product that enables impersonation or conceals the identity of advertisers would be recalled.
(3)Preventing researchers to scrutinize what is going on on its platform. X imposed unnecessary barriers and rejected valid applications from eligible researchers. A platform that calls itself a champion of transparency shouldn’t be afraid of independent scrutiny. What is there to hide?
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
(3)Preventing researchers to scrutinize what is going on on its platform. X imposed unnecessary barriers and rejected valid applications from eligible researchers. A platform that calls itself a champion of transparency shouldn’t be afraid of independent scrutiny. What is there to hide?
X not only did not want to address these issues, but actively wants to prevent scrutiny in the fraud that its platform enables.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
X not only did not want to address these issues, but actively wants to prevent scrutiny in the fraud that its platform enables.
(2) A broken advertising transparency system
The DSA requires platforms to let users see who is paying to influence them. X’s ad library is incomplete, inconsistent, and missing essential disclosures. Without this transparency, scam ads are harder to be taken down.
The DSA requires platforms to let users see who is paying to influence them. X’s ad library is incomplete, inconsistent, and missing essential disclosures. Without this transparency, scam ads are harder to be taken down.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
(2) A broken advertising transparency system
The DSA requires platforms to let users see who is paying to influence them. X’s ad library is incomplete, inconsistent, and missing essential disclosures. Without this transparency, scam ads are harder to be taken down.
The DSA requires platforms to let users see who is paying to influence them. X’s ad library is incomplete, inconsistent, and missing essential disclosures. Without this transparency, scam ads are harder to be taken down.
(1) Misleading “verification” that enables impersonation scams: X turned the blue check into a paid badge without ensuring any meaningful verification. That design choice makes it dramatically easier for fraudsters to pose as real individuals, brands, or authorities.
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
(1) Misleading “verification” that enables impersonation scams: X turned the blue check into a paid badge without ensuring any meaningful verification. That design choice makes it dramatically easier for fraudsters to pose as real individuals, brands, or authorities.
The Commission’s findings focus on three failures of a broken product that have nothing to do with the opinions people express on the platform:
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Commission’s findings focus on three failures of a broken product that have nothing to do with the opinions people express on the platform:
