European Union rules that Meta’s Instagram and Facebook are ‘addictive’ by design; threatens millions of dollar as fine; company responds ‘angrily’: We disagree as these findings don’t…
Brussels has run out of patience with the scroll. The European Commission said on July 10 that it has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act, concluding that Instagram and Facebook were built to keep people hooked rather than simply engaged.
The list of culprits is familiar: infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and recommendation feeds tuned to know exactly what keeps a thumb moving.
