Enforcement tracker

Grounds

• ·Age assurance methods
• ·Default settings applied to minors’ accounts
• ·Content moderation adequacy

Timeline

1. 26 March 2026 Formal proceedings opened.

Grounds

• ·Sale of illegal products, including potential child sexual abuse material
• ·Addictive design features
• ·Recommender system transparency

Timeline

1. 17 February 2026 Formal proceedings opened.

Grounds

• ·Systemic risks from the deployment of Grok on the platform (Articles 34–35)
• ·Recommender systems, including a planned switch to a Grok-based recommender (Article 38)

Timeline

1. 26 January 2026 Proceedings opened into risks from Grok’s deployment, extending the existing case to X’s recommender systems.

Grounds

• ·Appropriate and proportionate age assurance (Article 28 and Articles 34–35)
• ·Adequacy of risk assessment on minors’ access

Timeline

1. 27 May 2025 Joint proceedings opened against four adult platforms over reliance on self-declaration age gates.

Grounds

• ·Risk management of election integrity (Articles 34–35)
• ·Recommender systems and coordinated inauthentic manipulation
• ·Political advertising policies

Timeline

1. 17 December 2024 Formal proceedings opened after Romania annulled its presidential election.

Grounds

• ·Sale of illegal products and risk assessment adequacy
• ·Addictive design features including gamified rewards
• ·Recommender system transparency (Article 27)
• ·Researcher data access (Article 40)

Timeline

1. 31 October 2024 Formal proceedings opened.
2. 28 May 2026 Commission fines Temu €200 million.

Grounds

• ·Addictive design and rabbit-hole effects on minors (Articles 34–35)
• ·Age assurance methods
• ·Prevention of access by under-13s

Timeline

1. 16 May 2024 Formal proceedings opened.

Grounds

• ·Deceptive political advertising and coordinated inauthentic behaviour
• ·Deprecation of the CrowdTangle research tool (Article 40)
• ·Notice-and-action and complaint mechanisms

Timeline

1. 30 April 2024 Formal proceedings opened ahead of the 2024 European Parliament elections.
2. 2026 Commission issues preliminary findings that Meta did not provide DSA-compliant mechanisms to report illegal content or challenge moderation decisions. Preliminary findings are not a final decision.

Grounds

• ·Launch of a reward feature without a prior Article 34 risk assessment

Timeline

1. 22 April 2024 Proceedings opened; TikTok suspends the rewards programme in the Union.
2. 5 August 2024 Case closed after TikTok commits to permanently withdraw the programme from the Union — the DSA’s first binding commitments.

Grounds

• ·Dissemination of illegal and non-compliant products
• ·Complaint handling and internal redress
• ·Trader traceability and marketplace duties
• ·Advertising transparency and researcher data access

Timeline

1. 14 March 2024 Formal proceedings opened.
2. June 2025 Commission accepts binding commitments on part of the case, including public data access for researchers.
3. 20 July 2026 Commission fines AliExpress €550 million. An action plan is due by 20 October 2026.

Grounds

• ·Addictive design and “rabbit-hole” effects (Articles 34–35)
• ·Age verification and the protection of minors
• ·Advertising repository (Article 39)
• ·Researcher data access (Article 40)

Timeline

1. 19 February 2024 Formal proceedings opened.
2. 5 December 2025 Commission accepts and makes binding TikTok’s commitments on advertising transparency under Article 71(1).
3. 2026 Commission issues preliminary findings that TikTok may have breached transparency obligations. Preliminary findings are not a final decision.

Grounds

• ·Notice-and-action mechanisms and systemic risk management
• ·Deceptive design of the paid verification checkmark
• ·Advertising repository completeness and accessibility (Article 39)
• ·Researcher access to public data (Article 40)

Timeline

1. 18 December 2023 Formal proceedings opened.
2. 5 December 2025 Commission fines X €120 million on three counts: the deceptive paid checkmark, an incomplete and unreliably accessible advertising repository, and terms and procedures that obstructed researchers. X must submit remedial plans within 60 days on the checkmark and 90 days on advertising and data access, or face periodic penalty payments.