Overview
- TikTok faces a preliminary EU finding that its infinite scroll, autoplay and hyper‑personalized recommendations foster compulsive use, especially among 12‑ to 15‑year‑olds.
- The Commission is pressing for concrete fixes such as effective screen‑time pauses, curbs on autoplay, adjustments to recommendations and ending endless feeds.
- Noncompliance could trigger penalties of up to 6% of TikTok’s global turnover under the DSA, with additional coercive measures possible if changes are not implemented.
- TikTok called the assessment categorically false and vowed to challenge it, while retaining the option to modify features during the ongoing procedure.
- In Germany, the CDU will seek party backing for a 16‑plus legal minimum with mandatory age verification, a plan criticized as hard to enforce under EU law as others point to Australia’s under‑16 ban and the European Parliament’s non‑binding 16‑year recommendation.