Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The European Union on Friday accused Meta and TikTok of breaking transparency rules of the EU's Digital Services Act.
The European Commission, which is the EU's executive arm, said it found preliminarily that both U.S. social media giants allegedly breached its legal duty to give researchers "adequate access" to publicly available data under the DSA.
"The Commission also preliminarily found Meta, for both Instagram and Facebook, in breach of its obligations to provide users simple mechanisms to notify illegal content, as well as to allow them to effectively challenge content moderation decisions," according to EU officials.
It pointed to "burdensome procedures" that often leave social media researchers with "partial or unreliable data, impacting their ability to conduct research, such as whether users, including minors, are exposed to illegal or harmful content."
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