Facebook and Instagram's 'Addictive Design' May Violate European Law, EU Commission Finds
The European Commission's preliminary finding that Meta's autoplay, infinite scroll, and personalized recommendations violate the EU's Digital Services Act cited a report from the NYU Center for Cybersecurity’s Cybersafety Research Center — a collaboration between NYU Tandon and Northeastern University — finding that 66% of Instagram's youth safety tools were either non-functional or too hard for young people to find.
