Irish regulator probes X over age checks, with 10% of turnover at stake

Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into X’s age-verification and parental-control features, finding they may be ineffective, lack minimum standards, are hard to locate and are not presented at sign-up. A breach of the online safety code could incur fines of €20 million or 10% of relevant annual turnover. The probe proceeds despite X’s ongoing legal challenge to the code.