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station dot com code tech news. Here's your daily crunch. The European Union is

formally investigating Tik-T's compliance with the Block's Digital Services Act, DSA, the Commission has announced.

Areas the Commission is focusing on in this investigation of Tic-Toc are linked to the protection of minors

advertising transparency data access for researchers and the risk management of

addictive design and harmful content it said in a press release.

The DSA is the Block's online governance and content moderation rulebook, which since Saturday

has applied broadly to likely thousands of platforms and services.

But since last summer, larger platforms such as Tik-Tok have faced a set of extra requirements

in areas like algorithmic transparency and systemic risk, and it's those rules the video

sharing platform is now being investigated under. Penalties for confirmed

breaches of the DSA can breach up to 6% of the global annual turnover.

Today's move follows several months of information gathering by the Commission, which

enforces the DSA rules for larger platforms, including requests for information from Tik-Toc in areas including child protection

and disinformation risks.

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