{"id":36372,"date":"2025-10-24T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/eu-says-facebook-and-instagram-violate-the-digital-services-act\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:11:13","slug":"eu-says-facebook-and-instagram-violate-the-digital-services-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/technologies\/eu-says-facebook-and-instagram-violate-the-digital-services-act\/","title":{"rendered":"EU says Facebook and Instagram violate the Digital Services Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dataconomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1151032.jpg\" alt=\"EU says Facebook and Instagram violate the Digital Services Act\" title=\"EU says Facebook and Instagram violate the Digital Services Act\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has issued a preliminary decision stating that Meta\u2019s Facebook and Instagram platforms are in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The findings detail violations concerning the handling of illegal content, moderation practices, and transparency rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s decision asserts that Meta imposes \u201cconfusing\u201d obstacles for users attempting to flag illegal content and contest moderation decisions. It was also found that the platforms \u201cappear to use so-called \u2018dark patterns\u2019, or deceptive interface designs.\u201d These designs can hinder the removal of materials related to child sexual abuse and terrorism. The preliminary findings also determined that both Meta and TikTok are violating the DSA\u2019s transparency obligations.<\/p>\n<p>In its assessment of transparency, the Commission reported that Meta and TikTok have established \u201cburdensome procedures and tools.\u201d These mechanisms are structured in a way that prevents researchers from effectively accessing public data on the platforms, a practice that contravenes transparency requirements under the act. Both companies now face potential penalties pending a final ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The possible fines could reach up to six percent of each company\u2019s annual worldwide revenue. Before the Commission issues its final decision, the platforms have the opportunity to either challenge the European Union\u2019s findings or implement corrective measures to address the stated concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured image credit<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has issued a preliminary decision stating that Meta\u2019s Facebook and Instagram platforms are in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The findings detail violations concerning the handling of illegal content, moderation practices, and transparency rules. The Commission\u2019s decision asserts that Meta imposes \u201cconfusing\u201d obstacles for users attempting to flag illegal content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technologies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}