aceEU charges TikTok with failing to protect users’ mental health
TikTok has been charged by the European Commission with failing to protect users’ mental health by exposing them to a relentless stream of content that risks worsening eating disorders and anxiety in a case that strikes at its business model. Issuing a preliminary ruling on Friday, the EU regulator said TikTok’s algorithm “can be harmful” and was leading young and vulnerable users “down rabbit holes they cannot easily escape from”. The Chinese-owned short-video platform, which has 189 million users in the EU, wa…
The European Commission preliminarily found that TikTok's recommendation algorithm keeps serving repetitive content on themes like body image and isolation, and that its safeguards, including the "not interested" button, failed to stop it for the platform's 189 million EU users.
The ruling is preliminary: TikTok can still examine the investigation file and mount a defence, and it disputes the findings as inaccurate.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-06
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