The EU announced on Friday that Meta must overhaul Facebook’s and Instagram’s addictive design features or face a fine. The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said. The Commission says these features fuel the user’s urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into “autopilot mode,” which contributes t…
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