Proceedings opened against Snapchat to investigate potential breaches of the DSA by exposing minors to grooming attempts and recruitment for criminal purposes, as well as to the sale of illegal goods. Snap’s reliance on self-declaration of age may be insufficient:

Today, Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos were preliminarily found in breach of the DSA for failing to protect minors from being exposed to pornographic content. The PFs preliminarily held that there was no objective risk assessment nor effective measures preventing access by minors:

DSA - investigation opened with regard to Shein, assessing its systems limiting the sale of illegal products, risks linked to addictive design of its service and the transparency of its recommender systems:

Online platforms should be safe for EU children and vulnerable adults: preliminary findings adopted holding that TikTok’s design violates the DSA by applying addictive features such as constant rewards and infinite scrolling, shifting the brain to ‘autopilot’ and leading to compulsive use:

Facts count. Announcement today that Apple Ads and Apple Maps will not be designated under the DMA. Because of their relatively low usage rate in the EU, neither of them qualifies as an « important gateway between EU business users and end users »:

With developments in AI taking place in ever faster speed, it is important that EU markets stay open and innovative. Today, two « fast track » (6 months) specification proceedings were opened to assist Google in complying with the DMA’s interoperability and data sharing obligations👇🏼

Today, WhatsApp, already designated as CPS under the DMA, was also designated as Very Large Online Platform under the DSA. The rules will apply to its ‘Channels’ that allow dissemination to a broad audience. WhatsApp has four months to comply with its obligations as a VLOP:

New investigation launched with respect to X’ deployment of Grok, and on-going investigation into X’ recommender system extended now that X has started to integrate Grok: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Very productive pre-Christmas meeting with the Digital Markets Act High-Level Group:

Good news for EU Facebook and Instagram users: as of January they will have the option to receive ads that are less based on their personal data:

Second set of commitments by TikTok, this time on advertising repositories allowing regulators, researchers and users in general to better identify scams:

Final decision in first X investigation on deceptive design of “blue checkmark”, data access for researchers and transparency on advertising:

Two more candidates for DMA designation to assess during the coming weeks:

In the EU, all online platforms have to offer a tool allowing the reporting of illegal content. Good to know before Black Friday…

Today, further questions were asked to Shein following preliminary indications that illegal goods were offered on their market place in France.

Commission report evaluating the DSA’s interaction with (54!) other EU laws, ia. on data protection and privacy, audiovisual, media, IP, consumer policy and product safety, and demoracy. Great tool for assessing sector-specific legislation in online world:

Another very productive meeting of the European Board for Digital Services with report on prominent risks, 2026 annual work plan, Art 91 DSA report and actions on financial scams:

ICYMI: Yesterday, market investigations were launched on potential designation of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services under the DMA. A third investigation will assess whether the DMA is equipped to address fairness and contestability issues in cloud:

Investigation launched to assess whether Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy infringes the DMA’s obligations to apply transparent, fair and non-discriminatory conditions to Google Search's ranking👇

Milestone for independent research into systemic risks stemming from the design and algorithmic systems of very large online platforms’s services for the EUs society:

Under the DSA’s balanced architecture, complaint handling systems, Notice and Action mechanisms and researchers’ access to data are key to ensure that users can challenge platforms’ content moderation decisions and report illegal content in the EU:

Protection of minors: time to see whether and how online platforms are complying with the measures listed in the DSA Guidelines:

Calling for your views on how the DMA can (furter) facilitate contestability of digital markets and AI sector:

A meaningful, specific and well founded risk assessment is key to very large online marketplaces’ compliance with the DSA. Today, the Commission adopted preliminary findings expressing the view that Temu’s risk assessment does not seem to meet that standard:

Great milestone: setting up co-operation with Japanese JFTC on enforcement of digital markets regulation ensuring market contestability and consumer choice:

Great announcements on online protection of minors in the EU: Guidelines on how online platforms should keep children safe and secure on their services, and a blueprint for the roll out of an EU age verification app: audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-2...

Between 20 June and 3 July the second series of DMA workshops was held with informative presentations by Gatekeepers and spot-on questions by third parties. ICYMI, recordings available here:

ICYMI: Consultation on the first review of the Digital Markets Act - European Commission- Time flies, we are looking for your views!

The eagerly awaited new rules on access to data by qualified researchers have been adopted! As of October qualified researchers can submit their applications to DSCs via the dedicated Data Access Portal:

Interesting discussion on business opportunities created by the DMA at Gdansk Digital Summit:

Detailed commitments by AliExpress ensuring that EU consumers can trust that robust checks are carried out to prevent ‘rogue’ traders + hidden links. However, AliExpress also needs to considerably step up efforts to prevent the sale of illegal products:

Great workshop this week to discuss the draft Guidelines on Protection of Minors with online platforms, DSCs, CSOs, other authorities and many other stakeholders, and with youth ambassadors as the absolute stars! Deadline for comments: 12th June.

Early exposure to pornography can harm minors' development. Today, the Commission 📢 opened proceedings against 4 adult platforms for a lack of age verification tools, and 🔍launched a coordinated action with the DSCs against smaller adult platforms #DSA

ICYMI: draft guidelines on protection of minors online, one of the highest and most immediate priorities under the DSA:

Public advertising repositories are critical to identify scam advertisements, hybrid threat campaigns, and coordinated information operations. Today, preliminarily findings were sent to TikTok for not having its ad repository in compliance with the DSA.

Yesterday, excellent workshop with platforms and civil society on risk assessment. Transparency and accountability are key pillars of the DSA - great to exchange experience and views on what works and what does not:

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Today, five decisions were adopted in favour and against Gatekeepers, to apply the rules adopted by the EU co-legislators “fairly, proportionally and without bias” as desired by the legislators:

Looking for talented online platform regulators!

Two sets of Preliminary Findings sent to Alphabet (DMA): Google must not treat its own services more favourably in ranking than similar third party services. Also, app developers should be able to steer customers to alternative offers from Google Play:

Two decisions adopted today after co-operative process with Apple, opening up a wider choice of innovative, products on iPhones/iPads. As a result third party smartwatches, headphones, TVs of all brands will work better on Apple devices:

Congratulations to the Digital Services Board with its first anniversary! 🎂

I can confirm that X has responded to our request for information on algorithm changes - within the @ec.europa.eu deadline. We will now carefully assess the documents submitted. The information provided will feed into our ongoing DSA investigation against X.

Online advertising funds most content on online platforms- it is a fundamental part of their ecosystem. Today, we had a successful kick off meeting of a series of workshops to explore voluntary codes of conduct in this area - registration still open:

As underlined in yesterday’s Communication on E-commerce, the DSA can play an important role in tackling challenges from low-value imports from non-EU traders. Today, information was requested from Shein on illegal products and its recommender system:

Hate speech can be poisonous. Today, the large platforms’ voluntary co-operation to counter illegal hate speech has been integrated in the DSA. Good for their users and helping them demonstrate they comply with the DSA:

The way individual opinions and facts are amplified may have an effect on societal risks. Today, further investigatory steps were taken to get a better understanding of X’ compliance with the DSA, in particular as regards its recommender systems:

Public consultation on interoperability for devices that can be connected to your iPhone and the process for interoperability requests by developers. More choice for iPhone users, more opportunities for companies: 👇 digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-s...