{"id":140880,"date":"2026-02-07T02:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=140880"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:47:48","slug":"tiktoks-addictive-design-features-fall-foul-of-eus-digital-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/tiktoks-addictive-design-features-fall-foul-of-eus-digital-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok&#8217;s addictive design features fall foul of EU&#8217;s digital rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<p data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"320\">The Commission found Chinese video-sharing app TikTok\u2019s addictive design features breach the bloc\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA) in a preliminary decision on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"320\">If the findings are confirmed, the EU has signalled it could force TikTok to take steps to reduce the stickiness of its platform to tackle digital addiction risks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/news\/tiktoks-addictive-design-features-fall-foul-of-eus-digital-rules\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Euractiv<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission found Chinese video-sharing app TikTok\u2019s addictive design features breach the bloc\u2019s Digital Services Act (DSA) in a preliminary decision on Friday. If the findings are confirmed, the EU &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":140884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,794,58,5],"tags":[2551,1155,487,2470,1687,2671],"class_list":["post-140880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continental-europe","category-digital","category-government","category-news","tag-addiction","tag-big-tech","tag-eu-legislation","tag-european-union","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}