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  • A new study shows that X’s ‘For you’ algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes traditional media, effectively shifting users’ opinions.

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    We've preliminary found that TikTok is in breach of the DSA for its addictive design.

    There are important indicators of compulsive use of the app that TikTok has disregarded in its risk assessment.

    Key features of the addictive design:
    🔹Infinite scroll
    🔹Autoplay
    🔹Push notifications
    🔹Highly personalised recommender system

    We consider that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service.

    TikTok can now exercise its right to examine and reply to the finding.

    https://link.europa.eu/9fTwmJ

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  • Most of the topics that dominate our collective attention on any given day are genuinely important to... someone. And many of them are important to almost everyone. The problem is structural. The total volume of things-you-should-have-an-opinion-about has exceeded our cognitive bandwidth so thoroughly that having careful opinions about anything has become damned-near impossible. Your attention is a finite resource being strip-mined by an infinite army of takes.

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  • With our homes and lives swarming with AI-powered devices, assistants and chatbots, a backlash is brewing.

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  • They make scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for them.

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    The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege:

    Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to ac
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