Name: TikTok Charged for Breaching EU Rules With App's Addictive Features
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Description: The EU watchdog's charges focus on TikTok's addictive design, which includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalised recommender system.

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TikTok was charged on Friday with breaching EU online content rules over what the bloc's regulator said were its addictive features and was told to change the design of its app or risk a fine of as much as 6 percent of owner ByteDance's global turnover.

The EU watchdog's charges focus on TikTok's addictive design, which includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalised recommender system.

The Commission set out its charges after a year-long investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires large online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content.

The Commission, which acts as the EU tech enforcer, cited the platform's generation of new content to constantly reward users, which fuels the urge to keep scrolling and shifts users' brains into autopilot mode as an example of an addictive feature.

The EU regulator said TikTok did not adequately assess how these features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults.

It accused TikTok of disregarding important indicators of compulsive use of the app, such as the time that minors spend on it at night and the frequency with which users open the app.

The EU watchdog said TikTok seems to fail to implement reasonable, proportionate, and effective measures, such as screen time management tools and parental control tools, to mitigate risks, and it needs to change the basic design.

"The ⁠Commission's preliminary findings present a categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform, and we will take whatever steps are necessary to challenge these findings," a TikTok spokesperson said.

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