EU Commission investigates Meta, Noyb files complaint against OpenAI

 

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“We suspect that Meta’s moderation is insufficient” and “lacks transparency of advertisements and content moderation procedures.”

– said European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday about the Commission initiating investigations to evaluate whether Meta might have violated the Digital Services Act.

Story of the week: The European Commission initiated investigations on Tuesday to evaluate whether Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, might have violated the Digital Services Act (DSA). Facebook and Instagram were classified as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) in April 2023 under the EU’s DSA, which designates platforms with over 45 million monthly active users in the EU as VLOPs. Meta has a “well-established process for identifying and mitigating risks” on its platforms and will cooperate with the Commission in the probe, a company spokesperson told Euractiv on Tuesday. The Commission also unveiled a whistleblower tool on Tuesday for information regarding potential breaches of the DSA and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), another landmark act addressing competition in the digital space. Read more. (...)