X (Twitter)fines & penalties
X Corp.
The social platform formerly known as Twitter. Its notable penalty concerns using security phone numbers for ad targeting.
- Penalties
- 2
- Total imposed
- ≈ $290Mexcludes annulled
- Largest
- $150M
- Span
- 2022 to 2025
Penalties by year
2022
$150M
2025
$140M
Every recorded penalty
2 penalties
X (Twitter) · 2022
Twitter's $150M FTC penalty over 2FA phone numbers
The FTC and DOJ penalised Twitter, now X, for using phone numbers and email addresses collected for account security, such as two-factor authentication, to target advertising.
FTC · US$150M
X (Twitter) · 2025
X fined €120M in the first Digital Services Act penalty
The European Commission found three transparency breaches at X: the paid blue checkmark deceives users because anyone can buy verified status without being verified, the advertising repository is neither searchable nor complete, and researchers are blocked from the public data the DSA requires platforms to share.
EC · EU€120M≈ $140M