Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ may violate European law, EU Commission finds
Following a two-year investigation, the European Commission released preliminary findings that Meta is violating the Digital Services Act with addictive design features on Facebook and Instagram.
A number of countries, including some in the EU, are also moving to block young teens from accessing social media, after Australia implemented a world-first ban on social media for children under 16 last year.
Last month, a report from researchers at New York University and Northeastern University evaluating the effectiveness of social media youth safety features found that 66 percent of Instagram’s tools were either non-functional or too hard for a young person to find.
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