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EU Digital Services Act duties start for 19 very large platforms and search engines

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Source: European Commission

Four months after the Commission designated them on 25 April 2023, 17 very large online platforms and 2 search engines, among them Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Google Search and Bing, had to comply with the full Digital Services Act from 25 August 2023. They must assess systemic risks such as disinformation and election manipulation each year, label ads, offer a recommender feed not based on profiling and stop profiling-based ads to children.

Why it matters

The largest platforms became answerable to the Commission for how they handle disinformation, synthetic media and risks to minors, with independent audits and researcher data access.

When
25 Aug 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0084
Who
European Commission, Meta, TikTok, Google, X, Microsoft

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from European Commission. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at European Commission

Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0084: “EU Digital Services Act duties start for 19 very large platforms and search engines.” wheresthe.ai, 25 Aug 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/eu-dsa-vlop-obligations-apply-2023-08/ (source: European Commission).

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