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La Comisión Europea multó a X con 120 millones de euros (diseño engañoso)
25 min to read the privacy policy (6,063 words)nuestro jurado lo verificólo declaran elloshallado en la app o medido
"We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"We may also share or disclose your age and identity information with our partners, service providers, and others for these purposes."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"Please keep in mind that if you’ve shared information like Direct Messages or protected posts with someone else who accesses X through a third-party service, the information may be shared with the third-party service."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
How this was checkedPolicy history
Screen recordings submitted to Abouit by users who stated they show cancelling or deleting their own account. Abouit did not record them and cannot verify who made them. Screens are counted by our published method. Submitted recordings are reported evidence: never a receipt, never part of a grade.
No receipt about X yet. read — nothing found yet privacy policy read from the Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
Published by X Corp. (no exact match in GLEIF).
What we checked in each of the six areas, and what we found there. Not a score: an empty area means not tested yet; "their words" means we quote their documents below but have not tested it. Planet is a seventh row of measured facts from the same first look: what the homepage weighs before any tap, and a CO2e range with its method.
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Green claims and their support
X Corp.or
X Internet Unlimited Company· source · SHA-256 e5c81f5da06e….
Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act
“On X, anyone can pay to obtain the ‘verified' status without the company meaningfully verifying who is behind the account, making it difficult for users to judge the authenticity of accounts and content they engage with.”
“This deception exposes users to scams, including impersonation frauds, as well as other forms of manipulation by malicious actors.”
“Today, the Commission has issued a fine of 120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).”
Status: A decision with a fine, announced on this date.
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Teens, screens and mental health
“New data from the WHO Regional Office for Europe reveals a sharp rise in problematic social media use among adolescents, with rates increasing from 7% in 2018 to 11% in 2022.”
“More than 1 in 10 adolescents (11%) showed signs of problematic social media behaviour, struggling to control their use and experiencing negative consequences.”
Status: About social media in general, not about this app alone.
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Peer-reviewed studies about social media in general, not about X alone. Each is one study: an association in a sample, not proof of cause. Studies do not all agree, and we show one that found the link is small.
Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
“The results of this cohort study suggest that social media checking behaviors in early adolescence may be associated with changes in the brain's sensitivity to social rewards and punishments.”
What kind of evidence: One peer-reviewed study of 169 adolescents with brain scans over three years. An association, not proof of cause.
Quién lo pagó: US National Institute on Drug Abuse (public money). As listed in the study's Europe PMC record.
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Associations Between Time Spent Using Social Media and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among US Youth
“Adolescents who spend more than 3 hours per day using social media may be at heightened risk for mental health problems, particularly internalizing problems.”
What kind of evidence: One peer-reviewed study of 6,595 US adolescents. An association, not proof of cause. About social media in general.
Quién lo pagó: US National Institute on Drug Abuse (public money) · Canadian Institutes of Health Research (public money). As listed in the study's Europe PMC record.
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The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
“The association we find between digital technology use and adolescent well-being is negative but small, explaining at most 0.4% of the variation in well-being.”
What kind of evidence: One peer-reviewed analysis of 355,358 adolescents. It found the link is small: studies do not all agree.
Quién lo pagó: The study's Europe PMC record lists no funder. That is not the same as no funding.
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Pick a style, then a format. Every card carries its date and a QR code back to this page.
Whole sentences copied exactly from X's own documents, grouped by subject. Their words, not yet tested: this is quotation, not a finding, and no jury has looked at it. Each sentence links to the archived copy it came from.
"We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"If you do not opt out, in some instances the recipients of the information may use it for their own independent purposes in addition to those stated in X’s Privacy Policy, including, for example, to train their artificial intelligence models, whether generative or otherwise."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"This includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, estimating or verifying your age as may be required under law, and defending against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"We may also use different signals and your data to infer, preserve, use, share, or disclose your age and identity information in order to comply with regulatory requirements as well as for safety, security, fraud, know-your-customer, know-your-business, and identity verification, as the case may be."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"We may also share or disclose your age and identity information with our partners, service providers, and others for these purposes."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by X from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with X and that X receives, generates, or infers about you described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by X from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with X and that X receives, generates, or infers about you, as described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"Please keep in mind that if you’ve shared information like Direct Messages or protected posts with someone else who accesses X through a third-party service, the information may be shared with the third-party service."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"We keep different types of information for different periods of time, depending on how long we need to retain it in order to provide you with our products and services, to comply with our legal requirements and for safety and security reasons."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"To submit a request related to access, modification, or deletion of your information, or someone else’s information if you are their authorized agent, you may also contact us as specified in the How To Contact X section of our Privacy Policy below."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"With that in mind, we’ve written our Privacy Policy as simply as possible to empower you to make informed decisions when you use X by making sure you understand and have control over the information we collect, how it’s used, and when it’s shared."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"The information we collect when you use X falls into three categories."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
"When you use our services, we collect information about how you use our products and services."
privacy policy · Open Terms Archive copy recorded 2026-10-30
We could not read X's privacy policy on 2026-11-09: its robots.txt asks automated readers not to fetch this page, and we never get around a refusal. Not tested. The page we tried
Not being able to read a page is not a finding about it.
