Meta e YouTube condannate per "addictive design". Sembra una vittoria per i minori, ma l'analisi giuridica svela rischi enormi | @brunosaetta
https://www.valigiablu.it/sentenze-meta-youtube-limiti-giuridici-rischi/

#meta #youtube #addictivedesign

TikTok faces EU fines for addictive features

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1447217/tiktok-faces-eu-fines-for-addictive-features/

"Dabei sehen Expertinnen und Experten längst nicht mehr die Nutzerinnen und Nutzern so sehr in der Verantwortung, sondern vielmehr die Plattformen und Konzerne – und auch die Politik."

#addictiveDesign

https://science.orf.at/stories/3233444/

So cool how @bitsoffreedom keeps up the pressure against #Meta #Facebook #Instagram in the Dutch courts to ensure compliance with the #DigitalServicesAct 💪

New compliance deadline to redesign the apps is 31 December!

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/28/judge-grants-meta-limited-postponement-in-bits-of-freedom-lawsuit/

#DSA #DigitalRights #DeceptiveDesign #AddictiveDesign

New #wjds paper published:

Author Xin Ye explores how online platforms use manipulative, attention-grabbing tactics that undermine user autonomy. Current #EU laws fall short - this study offers 3 key policy fixes.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.3.2

The paper is part of a special issue on "Well-being in the Digital World"

@dougaparry #DarkPatterns #AddictiveDesign #TechEthics #DigitalRights #PlatformRegulation #GDPR #DSA #research #law #socialscience #computerscience

"The second approach is much broader, covering every social media user, and that’s tackling the way the platforms function. We have plenty of reporting and research that shows social media platforms are designed to be addictive — to ensure people spend more time on the app, thus generating more advertising profits. Social media platforms learned techniques from gambling companies to keep users hooked by using likes, notifications, and other methods to entice people to keep coming back, triggering dopamine responses that their brains craved even if the platforms made them feel worse at the same time.

Tackling those addiction design practices, dark patterns in interface design that nudge people to perform certain actions, and the way the platforms’ algorithms spread and amplify certain (often extreme or sensationalist) content to keep people engaged is a more difficult task than a hard age limit. Despite the country’s decision to move forward with an age limit, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has already been examining and reporting on platform design issues and the issues with algorithmic recommendation systems.

If we’re serious about minimizing the harms of social media platforms, design interventions and algorithmic limits are a much more promising approach."

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/social-media-must-be-reined-in

#SocialMedia #AddictiveDesign #Algorithms #BigTech #DarkPatterns #AgeVerification #NannyState