TikTok denies all the complaints
could face millions of euros in fines if a complaint about political ads on the platform during the recent election campaign is upheld.
According to Coimisiún na Meán, “breaches of the DSA can lead to fines of up to 6 per cent of a company’s global annual turnover” – an amount potentially reaching into hundreds of millions of euros.If Sinn Féin wants to embody ‘change’, it should present a left-wing coalition to the electorateShe says that the treatment of politics ads that have run on TikTok during the campaign breaches specific articles of the EU Digital Services Act.
The platform also failed to build any transparency mechanism to allow for scrutiny of paid political ads, the complaint says. Where necessary, a complaint is passed on to one of our platform supervision teams for resolution with the platform concerned, or passed to our investigation team for possible enforcement action. Breaches of the DSA can lead to fines of up to 6 per cent of a company’s global annual turnover.”
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