{"id":7269,"date":"2026-02-18T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:58:20","slug":"spain-v-social-media-giants-whats-the-big-dispute-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/18\/spain-v-social-media-giants-whats-the-big-dispute-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain v social media giants: What\u2019s the big dispute about?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Commission has found that TikTok\u2019s design features, including infinite scroll and autoplay, breach the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act by encouraging compulsive use and failing to protect users\u2019 wellbeing. Regulators say these \u201caddictive\u201d elements can push users especially children and teenagers into what they described as \u201cautopilot\u201d behaviour. The Commission\u2019s preliminary findings conclude that TikTok hasn\u2019t adequately assessed or mitigated the risks posed by these features. TikTok now faces possible enforcement actions and must respond before any final ruling or potential fines under EU law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 6, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/02\/06\/tiktoks-addictive-design-breaches-eu-law-commission-says\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has found that TikTok\u2019s design features, including infinite scroll and autoplay, breach the EU\u2019s Digital Services Act by encouraging compulsive use and failing to protect users\u2019 wellbeing. Regulators say these \u201caddictive\u201d elements can push users especially children and teenagers into what they described as \u201cautopilot\u201d behaviour. The Commission\u2019s preliminary findings conclude that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7458,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}