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fromNew Scientist
6 days ago

Undisclosed ads on TikTok skirt ban on profiling minors

TikTok exploits an EU legal loophole by using undisclosed influencer marketing to target minors with personalized ads, circumventing the Digital Services Act's prohibition on profiling children.
EU data protection
fromwww.socialmediatoday.com
2 weeks ago

TikTok publishes latest EU usage, enforcement data

TikTok's EU monthly active users reached 178 million in its latest Digital Services Act report, representing 31% growth since October 2023 and indicating the platform approaches one billion global users.
fromNew York Post
3 months ago

Elon Musk calls for abolition of European Union after it hit X with $140M 'bulls-t' fine

The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people,
Miscellaneous
fromExchangewire
3 months ago

Digest: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros Discovery; X Hit with 120m EU Penalty; UK Eyes Tougher Laws for AI Chatbots

The European Union has imposed a €120m (£105m) penalty on X, marking the first sanction under the bloc's Digital Services Act for content-moderation breaches. The Commission said that X misled users with its paid "blue tick" verification, blocked researchers from accessing platform data, and failed to set up a proper advertising repository. Despite early speculation that regulators might go after Elon Musk's broader business empire, the fine was calculated without taking into account his estimated USD$467bn (£352.7bn) fortune.
Marketing tech
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Italian news publishers demand investigation into Google's AI Overviews

Italian publishers allege Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode reduce news website traffic, harming revenues, media diversity, and increasing disinformation risks.
EU data protection
fromSocial Media Today
5 months ago

Meta May Be Forced to Offer Default Chronological Timelines in its Apps

Meta must provide users with directly accessible options to select non-algorithmic timelines under the EU DSA, removing design barriers that steer users to ad-driven feeds.
fromeuronews
10 months ago

TikTok's ad database breaches EU platform rules, says Commission

Under the DSA, very large online platforms need to have such an advertising repository in place for researchers and civil society to detect scam advertisements and hybrid threat campaigns.
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