Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, May 16th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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The EU has opened a formal DSA investigation into Meta to assess if Facebook, Instagram, and its other apps were reinforcing

so-called rabbit hole effects, quoting the Financial Times.

The European Commission, the EU's executive arm announced on Thursday it would look into whether the Silicon Valley Giants

apps were reinforcing rabbit hole effects where users get drawn ever deeper into online feeds and topics.

EU investigators will also look into weather meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is complying with legal obligations to provide age verification tools to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content.

The probe is the second into the company under the EU's Digital Services Act.

The landmark legislation is designed to police content online with sweeping new rules on the

protection of minors.

It also has mechanisms to force internet platforms to reveal how they are tackling misinformation

and propaganda.

The DSA, which was approved last year, imposes new obligations on very large online platforms with more than 45 million users in the

EU.

If Meta is found to have broken the law, Brussels can impose fines of up to 6% of a company's

global annual turnover.

Repeat offenders can even face bans in the single market as an extreme measure

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