{"id":285099,"date":"2024-07-12T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=335935"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:12:22","slug":"europe-makes-it-clear-twitters-blue-checkmark-deceives-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/europe-makes-it-clear-twitters-blue-checkmark-deceives-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe makes it clear: Twitter&#8217;s blue checkmark deceives users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been over a year since <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> carried out his purge of blue checks on <strong>Twitter (X)<\/strong>, the same purge that resulted in any user with the verification mark losing it. Until that moment, the blue check was only granted <strong>to real profiles of famous or relevant people <\/strong>in their respective fields, a way of telling users that the account was real. However, after Musk&#8217;s move, any user could get the blue checkmark simply by paying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost a year and a half after this movement, the European Commission has issued a very tough judgment on Elon Musk&#8217;s company: their new system of verified accounts <strong>deceives users<\/strong>. Clear, direct, and to the point. &#8220;Our preliminary opinion is that <strong>X deceives users and violates the Digital Services Law<\/strong>,&#8221; comments Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the most relevant people in politics have a gray badge, while the highest paying companies have a golden one. However, any user can obtain the blue badge, so there are singers, actors, athletes, and many others who have a blue mark&#8230; <strong>but they are fake accounts<\/strong>. After all, to obtain the old blue checkmark, a thorough process had to be passed, in addition to a private investigation to verify the user was real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back in the day, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueChecks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlueChecks<\/a> used to mean trustworthy sources of information\u2714\ufe0f?<br><br>Now with X, our preliminary view is that:<br><br>\u274cThey deceive users<br><br>\u274cThey infrige <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DSA<\/a><br><br>X has now the right of defence \u2014but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines &amp; require significant changes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M9tGA5pYQr\">pic.twitter.com\/M9tGA5pYQr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThierryBreton\/status\/1811699711591489637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to this word of caution, <strong>the European Commission has also accused Twitter of not being transparent in advertising matters<\/strong>. &#8220;We consider that the X ad repository and the conditions for researchers&#8217; access to data do not comply with the transparency requirements of the Digital Services Act,&#8221; says Breton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As usual, Elon Musk has responded with his classic irony, although there&#8217;s no doubt that Twitter has opened another venue for him in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Comisi\u00f3n Europea aclara tambi\u00e9n que Twitter no es transparente en materia publicitaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9091,"featured_media":285100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-285099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312310,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285099\/revisions\/312310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285099"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=285099"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=285099"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=285099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}