{"id":242051,"date":"2026-07-10T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/facebook-and-instagrams-addictive-design-may-violate-european-law-eu-commission-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:15:13","slug":"facebook-and-instagrams-addictive-design-may-violate-european-law-eu-commission-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/facebook-and-instagrams-addictive-design-may-violate-european-law-eu-commission-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram\u2019s \u2018addictive design\u2019 may violate European law, EU Commission finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/10\/tech\/meta-eu-addictive-design\">Facebook and Instagram\u2019s \u2018addictive design\u2019 may violate European law, EU Commission finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/10\/tech\/meta-eu-addictive-design\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/10\/tech\/meta-eu-addictive-design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-10 09:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"edition.cnn.com\">edition.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The European Commission has demanded that Meta make substantial changes to Facebook and Instagram to address their &#8220;addictive design.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It identified several features of the apps, like autoplay, infinite scrolling, personalized recommendations, and push notifications, which could harm users\u2019 physical and mental wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>The commission found Meta has not adequately warned users of these risks and may be violating the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA).<\/li>\n<li>The findings follow rulings in the US regarding Meta&#8217;s intentional addiction to, and harm of, young users and an emerging global trend to restrict young people&#8217;s access to social media.<\/li>\n<li>Meta disagrees with the commission&#8217;s preliminary findings and highlighted their steps to protect teens, including Teen Accounts, but the commission still advises disabling addictive features and adjusting the recommender system accordingly.<\/li>\n<li>If Meta is found in violation of the DSA, it could face fines of up to 6% of its global revenue, potentially exceeding $12 billion based on last year\u2019s earnings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram\u2019s \u2018addictive design\u2019 may violate European law, EU Commission finds https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/10\/tech\/meta-eu-addictive-design Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2271833769.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242053,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242051\/revisions\/242053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}