European Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's ad repository in breach of the Digital Services Act
Today, the Commission has informed TikTok of its preliminary view that the company does not fulfil the Digital Services Act (DSA)\'s obligation to publish an advertisement repository.
cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/2776105
The European Commission has informed TikTok of its preliminary view that the company does not fulfil the Digital Services Act (DSA)'s obligation to publish an advertisement repository. Such an advertising repository is critical for researchers and civil society to detect scam advertisements, hybrid threat campaigns, as well as coordinated information operations and fake advertisements, including in the context of elections.
The Commission has found that TikTok does not provide the necessary information about the content of the advertisements, the users targeted by the ads, and who paid for the advertisements. Moreover, TikTok's advertisement repository does not allow the public to search comprehensively for advertisements on the basis of this information, thereby limiting the usefulness of the tool.
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TikTok now has the possibility to exercise its rights of defence by examining the documents in the Commi