by Avi Gesser, Anna R. Gressel and Michael Pizzi
On July 5, 2022, the European Parliament voted to approve the final
text of the Digital Services Act ("DSA" or the "Act"), a landmark
regulation that-along with its sister regulation, the Digital Markets
Act ("DMA")-is poised to transform the global regulatory landscape for
social media platforms, hosting services like cloud service providers,
and other online intermediaries.
Lawmakers have billed the DSA as implementing the principle that "what
is illegal offline, should be illegal online." In reality, the DSA
goes much further, requiring online platforms to not only take greater accountability for "illegal" and "harmful" content that they host, but
also to provide unprecedented transparency around their content
moderation practices, targeted advertising, and recommender
algorithms, and to maintain comprehensive risk management systems for
a potentially wide range of systemic risks - from public health crises
to political misinformation.
https://tinyurl.com/422wjrev
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