{
  "id": 10081,
  "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-preliminarily-finds-addictive-design-instagram-and-facebook-breach-digital-services-act",
  "title": "Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act",
  "summary": "Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/10/2026 - 10:57 The European Commission has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook. The investigation focuses on features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the platforms' highly personalised recommender systems. The Commission's investigation indicate",
  "authors": "Anonymous",
  "category": "policy",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2026-07-10T08:57:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:55:59.928Z",
  "source_slug": "ec-digital",
  "source_name": "European Commission",
  "source_homepage": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10081",
  "original_url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-preliminarily-finds-addictive-design-instagram-and-facebook-breach-digital-services-act",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}