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In April 2024, the European Commission opened proceedings against TikTok (a designated Very Large Online Platform) for its new “Reward Program”, which allows users to earn points which can be exchanged for rewards, including Amazon vouchers, gift cards via PayPal or TikTok's coin currency. The Commission was particularly concerned by the impact of such functionality on minors. According to the latter, the programme could infringe provisions of the Digital Services Act (DSA) on the diligent assessment of risks (particularly in relation to the addictive effect of the programme) and...

In the Board meeting of 24 July 2024, the Italian Communication Authority (Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni – “AGCOM”) approved the Regulations laying down the procedural rules for the certification of out-of-court dispute resolution bodies between online platform providers and service recipients (Resolution No. 282/24/CONS) and for the issuance of the qualification as trusted flaggers (Resolution No. 283/24/CONS) under, respectively, Articles 21 and 22 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (“DSA”). The Regulations, which will enter into force on 15 September...

In April 2024, on the basis of the notification obligations provided for in Directive (EU) 2015/1535, the German Länder, as the competent legislative body, notified the European Commission of a draft amendment to the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (State Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media – JMStV). However, in its opinion of 1 July 2024, the European Commission was critical of the draft. Although it shared the objective of providing children and young people with safe access to online content and protecting them from harmful content, the Commission considered that, as...

On 20 June 2024, the High Court of Ireland confirmed the designation by Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), the Irish media regulator, of online platforms Reddit and Tumblr as video-sharing platform (VSP) services. Under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act of 2022 (OSMR Act), the Commission was granted the power to designate online services as VSPs, to which the online safety code to be drafted by the Commission may apply. The Commission issued ten designation notices (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Udemy, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, Tumblr and Reddit) at the end of 2023,...

Following its public consultation launched between 8 December 2023 and 31 January 2024, and consultation with its Youth Advisory Committee, Coimisiún na Meán, the Irish regulator, published an updated draft Online Safety Code on 27 May 2024. The Code, which will apply to video-sharing platforms (VSPs) headquartered in Ireland, was submitted to the European Commission on the same day. Back in December 2023, Coimisiún na Meán had already designated 10 VSP providers as falling under its jurisdiction (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, TikTok, Tumblr,...