Social media bans for youngsters spread across the EU
Austria is set to join other European Union countries in banning young people from accessing social media.
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Austria is set to join other European Union countries in banning young people from accessing social media.
Countries including France and Britain are considering following Australia's lead by banning children and some teenagers from using social media, but experts are…
Poland’s government has asked the European Union to take measures against the social media platform TikTok after allegedly AI-generated clips appeared on the platform…
The European Commission has suffered a major defeat in court over its plans to make large tech platforms pay it to enforce the Digital Services Act.
French influencer Alex Hitchens, known for his controversial masculinist views, has returned to TikTok after a brief ban that followed his appearance before the…
NGO Global Witness has alleged that TikTok’s algorithm disproportionately promoted "far-right political content".
Co-President of the French National Digital Council, Gilles Babinet, has warned that social media "in their current forms are not compatible with democracy".
The European Commission has determined Chinese-owned social-media app TikTok violated European online content rules about transparency in who pays for advertisements.
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator on May 2 over concerns on how it protects user information and was ordered to…
Dutch authorities have carried out a series of co-ordinated raids across the Netherlands resulting in the arrest of 14 individuals suspected of alleged incitement…
European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Technology Henna Virkkunen has expressed support for TikTok’s newly introduced measures aimed at preventing foreign…
France’s digital watchdog, Viginium, has warned that online content creators were in danger of being exploited for political gain as foreign actors manipulated…
TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed by Austrian advocacy group Noyb, which alleged the firms were unlawfully…
Albania announced on December 22 a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the…
The European Commission opened formal proceedings on December 17 against social media firm TikTok over its suspected failure to limit election interference, notably in…
TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form social media platform, has lately been in the spotlight on both sides of the Atlantic. Not without good reason.
The European Union has invoked some of its powers under the Digital Services Act amid increasing scrutiny related to the activities of TikTok during the recent elections…
Never in the history of liberal democracy anywhere – let alone in the Western camp – has a candidate shot from quasi-total obscurity straight to first place…
The news is getting so common that it is hardly news anymore. Chinese espionage is becoming a major threat for Western security.
The European Commission requested information on October 2 from YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok on the parameters used by their algorithms to recommend content to users…
Big Tech platforms limited the spread of millions of posts throughout the period of the European Parliament elections in June, newly released documents have confirmed.
The European Commission has taken down a TikTok rewards programme amid fears it could have been operating in violation of the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA).
A report by the Mozilla Foundation and AI Forensics has pointed out what they said was a lack of security features in the version of social media giant TikTok Lite…
An anti-migrant electro-dance song titled Je Partira Pas (I won't leave) has taken French social media by storm, despite efforts to ban it.
Internet activism has taken France's electoral campaign by storm with left-wing supporters using social media to reach young voters.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has come first in an anti-disinformation test held ahead of the European elections.
The three companies have been the primary targets of the EU’s Digital Services Act crackdown on big tech, Brussels Signal has found.
The European Union has designated Chinese-founded fast-fashion company Shein as a very large online platform (VLOP) after it reported a huge number of users, the…
Chinese technology firm ByteDance has killed a controversial TikTok rewards programme amid threats from senior EU officials.
"We suspect TikTok Lite could be as toxic and addictive as cigarettes 'light'," Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, said.