Investor protection: ESMA urges social media companies to tackle unauthorised financial ads
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today written to several social…
Brussels flags TikTok’s ad system for non-compliance with Digital Services Act
The EU Commission has notified TikTok of its preliminary finding that the company fails to meet its obligation under the…
EU Code of Conduct on Disinformation: Signatories publish their latest reports
Signatories of the EU Code of Conduct on Disinformation, including major players, such as Google, Meta, Microsoft,and TikTok, published their…
Insight EU Digitization and Entertainment Weekly 17 – 21 February 2025
We offer delayed access to the headlines of our Insight EU specialized monitoring emails, typically by several days. For real-time…
EU Code of Conduct on Disinformation becomes DSA compliance benchmark
Today, the EU Commission and the European Board for Digital Services endorsed the integration of the voluntary Code of Practice…
TikTok Order: Protecting U.S. Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
U.S. President Trump intends to consult with my advisors, including the heads of relevant departments and agencies on the national…
Countering illegal hate speech: Revised Code of Conduct as part of Digital Services Act
Brussels, 20 January 2025 The EU Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcome...
TikTok’s election performance: EU Commission investigates suspected DSA breaches
The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against TikTok for a suspected breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The…
Romanian elections: EU Commission issues data retention order to TikTok
The European Commission has issued a 'retention order' to TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA), requiring the platform to…
Romania: EU Commission asks platforms and search engines to ensure election readiness
With the ongoing elections in Romania, the EU Commission has reaffirmed its commitment to enforce the Digital Services Act to…
Digital Services Act: EU Commission sends additional information request to TikTok
The European Commission sent an additional request for information (RFI) to TikTok. According to the Digital Services Act (DSA), responsible…
Coping with electoral disinformation campaigns: Online platforms deliver measure reports
Today, major online platforms and signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation--including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and TikTok--have published their fourth…
TikTok commits to permanently withdraw its Lite Rewards programme from the EU
The platform has made two commitments under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA): A commitment to withdraw the TikTok Lite…
EU General Court dismisses Bytedance’s (TikTok) action against gatekeeper role
Digital Markets Act: The EU General Court dismisses the action brought by Bytedance (TikTok) against the decision of the Commission…
EU General Court Judgment in Case T-1077/23 Bytedance v Commission
Wednesday 17th July 2024 EU General Court Judgment in Case T-1077/23 Bytedance v Commission (Approximation of...
EU Commissioner Breton reacts on TikTok suspending TikTok Lite reward system
The company's statement follows the Commission's announcement of its intention to impose interim measures by suspending the TikTok Lite feature…
TikTok Lite in France and Spain: EU Commission opens DSA compliance proceedings
Under the DSA, designated Very Large Online Platforms are obliged to submit a risk assessment report, including measures to mitigate…
Launch of TikTok Lite in France and Spain: EU Commission sends request for information
TikTok must provide the risk assessment for TikTok Lite in 24 hours and the other requested information by 26 April…
EU Commission opens formal proceedings against TikTok under the DSA
The opening of formal proceedings empowers the Commission to take further enforcement steps, such as interim measures, and non-compliance decisions.…
EU Commission sends requests for information to 17 VLOPs and Search Engines under the DSA
Today, the Commission has sent formal requests for information under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to 17 of the Very Large Online…
EU Commission sends requests for information to TikTok and YouTube under the DSA
Today, the European Commission has formally sent TikTok and YouTube requests for information under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The…
Information Society Services: EU Court Judgment in Case C-376/22 Google Ireland and others
In 2021, Austria introduced a law requiring domestic and foreign providers of communications platforms to set up mechanisms for reporting…
VLOPs and Search Engines to publish first transparency reports under the DSA
As part of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), designated Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large…
TikTok: Five EU Parliament committees invite CEO to a joint hearing
This invitation is a follow-up to a previous one, sent in July 2023 and declined by Mr Chew. Given that…
Europol and TikTok collaborate to bolster efforts against terrorist content
On 28 September, a large-scale voluntary Referral Action Day between TikTok, Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) and 11 countries…
Major online platforms report on first six months under the new Code of Practice on Disinformation
Today, the major online platforms which are signatories of the new Code of Practice on Disinformation of 2022 (Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok)…
Cybersecurity: EU Commission suspends the use of TikTok on its corporate devices
Brussels, 23 February 2023 To increase its cybersecurity, the Commission’s Corporate Management Board has decided...
EU-Digitalexperte Schwab (EVP/CDU) zum EU-Besuch des TikTok-CEO
Brüssel, 10. Januar 2022 Anlässlich des Besuches des CEO’s von TikTok, Shou Zi Chew in...
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EU Code of Conduct: Latest evaluation shows slowdown against online hate speech
Brussels, 24 November 2022 Today, the European Commission released the results of its seventh evaluation of...
Prohibition of software applications – EU Commission answer
Brussels, 10 August 2022 See question(s) : E-002079/2022 EN E-002079/2022 Answer given by Ms Johansson...
TikTok commits to align with EU consumer rights and contracts directives
Brussels, 21 June 2022 Following dialogues with the Commission and the network of national consumer...
Online platforms want more players to join Code of Practice against Coronavirus disinformation
The Commission publishes today the reports by Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Microsoft and Google on measures taken in...
EU Commission and national consumer protection authorities launch dialogue with TikTok
Today, the European Commission and the network of national consumer authorities (CPC) have launched a formal dialogue...
Coronavirus vaccines disinformation: new reports from online platforms to inform Code of Practice revamp
The Commission publishes today the new reports by Twitter, TikTok, Google, Facebook and Microsoft on measures they...