EU Targets TikTok, Meta, and X: The Digital Fairness Act Takes On Addictive Design
— Agiliton
— 11 min read
“The question is not whether young people should have access to social media. The question is whether social media should have access to young people.”
That sentence — delivered by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on May 12, 2026, at the European Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Children in Copenhagen — marked the strongest signal yet that Brussels intends to redesign how platforms treat children. The Commission announced that its forthcoming Digital Fairness Act (DFA) will directly target “addictive and harmful design practices” — endless scrolling, autoplay, push notifications, and the algorithmic systems that quietly keep minors locked into their phones for hours every day.
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