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Playing video games may be good for your mental health, according to a large new study conducted in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic upended global supply chains in 2020, demand for video games far outpaced the available supply, so Japanese retailers used a lottery system to decide who could buy two major consoles, the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 (PS5). Researchers saw an opportunity for a natural experiment on how this random distribution of games played out. They surveyed nearly 98,000 people – including about 8,200 people who participated in the lottery – and foun...
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Video-sharing app TikTok has committed to permanently withdraw its TikTok Lite rewards program from the EU market, and to stop the roll-out of similar reward functionalities, the European Commission said today (5 August). The commitments were made by TikTok to address concerns raised by the Commission in formal proceedings opened in April under the Digital Services Act (DSA). It is the first settlement that concludes a probe under the DSA - stringent platform rules which took effect in August last year. TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, was ordered in April by the Commission to suspe...
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The US Senate is expected to pass legislation meant to protect children from dangerous online content. The bill has support from both Democrats and Republicans and would be the first major effort by US lawmakers to hold tech companies accountable for harm on these platforms. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who wrote the bill with Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, said the bill is about allowing children, teens and parents to take back control of their lives online. "Our bill provides specific tools to stop Big Tech companies from driving toxic content at k...
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A voluntary Code of Practice on Disinformation implemented by online platforms should be turned into a formal code under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), national regulators said in a report published today (29 July). The Digital Services Board – composed of the Digital Services Coordinators (DSCs) from the member states – said in its report that it, together with the European Commission, it “urges signatories to proceed swiftly” with adoption of the formal code. The Code of Practice on Disinformation was formalised in 2022, and is signed by 34 companies including Meta, Microsoft and TikTo...
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National regulators enforcing online platforms’ compliance with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) may use so-called 'trusted flaggers' to help identify illegal behaviour, but only two have been appointed DSA entered into force on 17 February, data provided by the European Commission shows. Trusted flaggers are experts at detecting types of illegal content online – such as hate speech or terrorist content – which they will notify to online platforms. A spokesperson for the Commission told Euronews that while there is no deadline for companies to apply for the status, more are expected to be add...
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The digital platforms most quizzed by the European Commission to check whether their policies are in line with the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA) are Meta and TikTok, data collected by Euronews shows. Almost one year on from the introduction of the new law, a probe into X advanced by the Commission last week (12 July) is the most advanced of the pending investigations under the EU’s platform rules. The preliminary findings found X in breach of the DSA - and the Commission could potentially come to similar conclusions in the other probes into Meta, Aliexpress and TikTok later this year. Be...
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Republican candidate and former US President Donald Trump is predicted to do well in the US election in November: polls predict Trump’s chances of winning now at 71%, which rose from earlier figures after the attack in Pennsylvania last weekend. After four years of democrat president Joe Biden – and a lot of EU tech regulation coming out of the EU Commission targeting mostly US big tech firms – we look at what a victory for Trump could mean regarding Brussels’ Big Tech enforcement. EU-California relationshipEU Commission tech envoy Gerard de Graaf – who moved to Silicon Valley in 2022 to ensur...
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Social media platform X is in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers, the European Commission said today (12 July). The EU executive sent preliminary findings to X after it started a probe in December last year. The Commission now finds that the function of X’s blue checkmark – used to verify accounts on the platform – is an illegal dark pattern and misleads users into believing that the accounts behind these are verified. In addition, the advertising repository that the platform needs to set up under ...
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Adult content platform XNXX has been designated as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the EU’s platform rules, after it met the threshold of more than 45 million monthly users in the EU, the European Commission said today (10 July) This means that the Commission can police the platform with the strictest set of rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA), including on protection of minors, taking down illegal content and mitigating risk stemming from their services. XNXX, which has its EU headquarters in Czechia, now has four months, until November, to comply with the DSA. Since 17 Febru...
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Online fast-fashion platform Shein announced today (9 July) that it will set up a €200m circularity fund in the EU and UK in a bid to create a future-proofed fashion industry. The Singapore-based company said it will help businesses throughout Europe and the UK which are developing next-generation technologies and solutions by investing in start-ups working with recycled materials innovation and entering commercial partnerships with start-ups that work in recycled materials. “As a global leader in our sector, Shein has both a responsibility and an opportunity to accelerate innovations that can...
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