Areas the Commission is focusing on in this investigation of TikTok are linked to the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, and the risk management of addictive design and harmful content, in said in a press release. The DSA is the bloc'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 TikTok, 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. 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 TikTok in areas including child protection and disinformation risks. Although the EU's concerns over TikTok's approach to content governance and safety predate the DSA...
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