We have opened formal proceedings against Meta to assess whether Facebook and Instagram may have breached the Digital Services Act in areas linked to:

▪️ Disinformation
▪️ Visibility of political content
▪️ Non-availability of election-monitoring tools
▪️ Mechanisms to flag illegal content

More info: europa.eu/!h4Tjfy

#DSA

In the many discussions about #threads promise to add #activitypub support, regulations such as the #DMA and the #DSA, as well as the Canadian Online News Act have come up.

In this piece I dive deep into the specific articles of the Acts to see if they might impact Meta's decision making.

Read it at
fediversereport.com/making-sen…

Making sense of Threads and regulation

The launch of Threads, with its promise of adding ActivityPub support in the future, is hotly debated.

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Unsealed documents in the #CambridgeAnalytica class action lawsuit in Northern California revealed how Meta/Facebook will be unable to comply with the Digital Services Act or the GDPR because its internal data management systems are absolute “anarchy” per report by the Irish Council on Civil Liberties.

#DSA #GDPR #DataProtection #Privacy
iccl.ie/news/unsealed-court-do…

Unsealed court documents reveal data anarchy at Meta - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

ICCL letter to European Commission highlights new material about Meta’s internal data systems, and how Meta infringes the DMA & GDPR.

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RT @BertuzLuca@twitter.com

BREAKING Both the #DMA and #DSA have been adopted in the European Parliament with a very broad majority.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/BertuzLuca/status/…