EU accuses TikTok of breaching its digital rules with 'rabbit hole' video feeds

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The European Union has accused TikTok of breaching its digital rules, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the LA Times reported on Friday 6 November, the Inquirer headlining that 'rabbit hole' video feeds on TikTok violate the EU's digital rules. The European Commission claims TikTok broke its online platform rules by offering a recommendation algorithm that creates a 'rabbit hole effect' on users, The Verge reported, the regulators alleging that TikTok's algorithm can harm users with 'endless and repeated exposure' to content related to sadness, isolation, or body image. The platform must change the design of its 'For You' feed so that users have more control over opting out of seeing certain content, the 27-nation bloc's executive arm said, according to PBS NewsHour, Engadget writing that the bloc said the platform needs to change how the For You page works to help protect users' mental health. Bloomberg reported that TikTok moved one step closer to a new European Union fine after regulators found its video-recommendation algorithm pushes users down 'rabbit holes' of potentially harmful content, escalating an almost three-year probe into the video-sharing app, and the LA Times headlined that TikTok faces a fine over an algorithm that steers users toward harmful videos.

Latest: The European Union accused TikTok of breaching its digital rules, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the LA Times reported, the bloc's executive arm saying the platform must change the design of its 'For You' feed so that users have more control over opting out of seeing certain content, according to PBS NewsHour, and Bloomberg writing that TikTok moved one step closer to a new European Union fine.

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