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Polish billionaire Rafal Brzoska and his wife plan to sue Meta over fake advertisements on Facebook and Instagram that feature his face and false information regarding her circulating on the social media platforms.
An ongoing European Commission investigation into social media platform X could be influenced by the platform's handling of content related to riots in the UK, a spokesperson said on Friday (9 August).
The foiled jihadist terrorist plot targeting Taylor Swift‘s concerts in Vienna highlights an increasing terrorist threat coming from radicalised European teenagers, which experts blame on social media.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated court proceedings against the social media platform X on Tuesday (6 August), according to Ireland's High Court website.
Consumer organisations allege X's artificial intelligence (AI) tool is in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a complaint filed with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Monday (5 August).
TikTok can no longer launch rewards programmes for its EU users, following binding measures that the European Commission announced on Monday (5 August).
Spain's competition watchdog fined Booking.com with a record €413 million fine for "abusing its dominant position" during the past five years.
Aylo, Pornhub's parent company, is appealing to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to avoid having to disclose the natural names of users in its ad repository, as required by its Digital Services Act (DSA) designation.
The UK's broadcast and telecoms regulator Ofcom fined the social media platform TikTok £1.875 million (€2.23 million) for not providing accurate information about its parental controls, according to a Wednesday (24 July) press release.
The European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into food delivery apps Delivery Hero and Glovo, examining whether the two are participating in a cartel, according to a Tuesday (23 July) press release.
Tensions between Meta and the EU intensified on Monday (22 July), with the European Commission and European consumer authorities saying the US tech giant may be breaching consumer protection law with its “pay or OK” model.
The CJEU dismissed all of Bytedance's arguments as to why it shouldn't be a gatekeeper under the EU's digital rules, while re-elected Commission President von der Leyen laid out a series of promises for tech policy.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen vowed to fight both cyberbullying and addictive design in a speech to the European Parliament ahead of her confirmation vote on Thursday (18 July).
The EU Court of Justice upheld the European Commission’s decision to designate TikTok's parent company ByteDance as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act on Wednesday (17 July), dismissing all arguments presented by the company.
The European Commission accused social media platform X of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) over its verified accounts policy and lapses in transparency, in preliminary findings released on Friday (12 July).
The level of disinformation in national elections, such as the recent ones in France and the UK, was higher than in the previous European elections, disinformation experts said in recently published reports.
The European Commission designated the pornography platform XNXX as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA) on Wednesday (10 July), making it comply with the DSA's strictest regulations.
Spain's government announced a crackdown on Wednesday (3 July) on short-term and seasonal holiday lettings amid rising anger from locals who feel priced out of the housing market.
The European Commission formally requested information on Friday (28 June) from online marketplaces Temu and Shein on measures taken to comply with online safety regulation Digital Services Act (DSA).
The European Commission said Apple's App Store is in breach of the bloc's digital competition rules in preliminary findings announced through a Monday (24 June) press release.
The next European Commission should carry out a review of its digital rulebook mid-term and revise the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), says an internal briefing document seen by Euractiv.
The European Commission formally requested pornography platforms Pornhub, Stripchat, and Xvideos for detailed information on their compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), according to a Thursday (13 June) statement.
Facing a tough legislative election at the end of the month, France's President Emmanuel Macron said he wants to ban the use of phones for children under the age of 11 at a press conference.
While MEPs urgently called for measures to address disinformation risks and foreign influence attempts before the EU elections, according to a letter dated 9 April and seen by Euractiv, the European Commission responded just two days before the vote, stating the responsibility lies with tech platforms.
