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EU law regulating online platforms' handling of illegal content, disinformation, and user safety, with penalties up to 6% of global turnover for violations.
European Commission findings of July 10, 2026 say Facebook and Instagram may breach the DSA through infinite scroll, autoplay and personalised recommendations. That adds interface features to ranking logic as a legal question for the largest platforms.
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The designation converts a growth number into a standing operating cost. Whether that cost or the fine ceiling is the bigger figure depends entirely on how much revenue a company actually has.
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European Commission's KIDS Act proposal expects services minors can reach to build in age-banded access and safe defaults, with comments due 26 November 2026. Nothing is binding yet. The design it points to ties each default to an age check that keeps no ID documents.
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OpenAI, whose ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion people a week, is connecting its ads to conversion data from Hightouch, Tealium and LiveRamp. For privacy teams, staff use of the consumer app now sits inside an advertising system built to tie ad views to purchases.
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ChatGPT is now a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's DSA, designated by the European Commission on Aug 31 with 159.1 million monthly EU users. Qtim CEO Anton Fokin argues that anyone shipping a web-search feature needs logs that can rebuild each answer from its sources.
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EU Commission's draft Kids Act bars social media accounts for under-13s and locks the unrestricted version of covered apps behind an age check. Techdirt argues platforms will play it safe and check everyone, so adults carry the privacy cost too.
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US Justice Department lawyers have asked to join X's court challenge to its 120 million euro EU fine, the first penalty under the Digital Services Act. Before any argument on the merits, a Luxembourg court has to decide whether Washington may join the case at all.
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Capital spending of $9.98bn in one quarter bought 45% AI cloud growth, a 12% segment margin and a $6.58bn free cash outflow. The trade is now explicit in the accounts.
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Musical.ly paid $5.7mn in 2019 over the same statute. The DOJ's complaint treats registration-flow design as the violation, which makes age-gating a documented enforcement target.
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The cease-and-desist gave roughly 21 hours and named the repository, not just the running instances. Account-free reading of X is now a paid API key or a DSA application.
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The designation attaches to a capability. Any assistant that answers prompts from the open web can be read as a search engine, and the four-month clock starts at notification, a date fixed by that filing.
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ChatGPT is the first AI assistant pulled into the Digital Services Act. It was filed as a search engine, which puts annual risk assessments, independent audits and researcher data access on OpenAI Ireland by the end of November.
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Canberra's exposure draft takes a right Europe already granted and adds the part Europe left out: making platforms keep offering it. That obligation is also the rare online-safety rule a researcher can check in an afternoon.
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America's Justice Department has applied to back X's bid to annul a 120 million euro fine the European Commission imposed under the Digital Services Act. The first DSA penalty, over X's blue checkmarks, now has a government arguing each side before the EU General Court.
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed 13 child safety bills on 10 September, and the feed rules bar serving under-16s content ranked on their own history and profile. Europe's DSA requires only that a non-profiling option exist.
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Australia's My Feed, My Way proposal would make every platform offer a following-only feed or face fines of up to A$109.2 million. Instagram already has one, and its chief used an Australian press briefing to argue that most users do not want it.
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The EU Kids Act would bar under-15s from social media and AI chat services, while the age-verification wallet the Commission finished in April certifies 18 and can be adapted to 13. Member states are meant to be tooled by the end of 2026.
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Von der Leyen announced a ban on social media for under-13s and one-hour parent-run accounts for 13- to 15-year-olds. WIRED and a draft seen by the Financial Times describe the youngest tier differently, and the text is years from force.
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Washington has applied to join X's and Elon Musk's EU court challenges to their 120 million euro Digital Services Act fine. Its case turns on whose turnover the Commission may count, a question the Justice Department says reaches large platforms with US parents.
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The Commission adopted the proposal on September 18. Under-13s would be kept off social media, and 13- to 15-year-olds would only get parent-linked accounts carrying a 60-minute daily cap that platforms have to enforce.
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