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EU case files on Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act enforcement, addictive design and game preservation.
8 case files · 3 decided · 3 open · 2 company record
European Union case files follow the European Commission's use of the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act: non-compliance decisions, platform designations, preliminary findings on addictive design and fines for marketplace risk.
EU rules often set obligations for very large platforms rather than resolving an individual complaint. Each file states whether a decision is final, preliminary or a policy response, and what it changes for a person using the service in the EU.
The European Commission issued two Digital Markets Act decisions against Google: one on how its own services appear in Search, and one on developers’ ability to direct customers to other ways to pay.
Social platforms began with people choosing who to follow. The mature model increasingly routes attention through recommendation systems, advertising inventory and platform-controlled distribution.
Search began as a concise route to other sites. Its current incentives include advertising, proprietary answer surfaces and AI features that can reduce the reason to continue to the source.
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as very large services under the Digital Services Act, bringing new risk, transparency and user-choice obligations.
The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million after finding that it failed to assess and reduce systemic risks from illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products.
The European Commission has preliminarily found Meta’s design of Instagram and Facebook to be in breach of the Digital Services Act, focusing on infinite scroll, autoplay, notifications and highly personalised recommendations.
The European Commission will engage with consumers and game publishers after the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, while saying it cannot currently require publishers to keep games playable after commercial support ends.
The European Commission opened a Digital Services Act investigation into Shein’s addictive design, recommendation transparency and illegal-product controls. It is an investigation, not a finding.