The European Commission has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act, ruling Instagram and Facebook’s addictive design—infinite scroll, autoplay, personalised feeds—harms users, especially teens. Brussels wants autoplay and infinite scroll disabled by default, plus real screen time breaks. Meta faces a fine up to 6% of global turnover and disputes the findings, citing its Teen Accounts safeguards as adequate protection already in place. The European Commission has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act, ruling Instagram and Facebook’s addictive design—infinite scroll, autoplay, personalised feeds—harms users, especially teens. Brussels wants autoplay and infinite scroll disabled by default, plus real screen time breaks. Meta faces a fine up to 6% of global turnover and disputes the findings, citing its Teen Accounts safeguards as adequate protection already in place.
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