News Summary

• We will provide a guide to help people better understand each category,” TikTok writes.It further stipulates it will first review content European users are reporting as illegal against its Community Guidelines and remove it globally if it deems it violates its policies.
• The regulation requires these popular platforms provide users with a choice to switch off recommender systems based on profiling.
• Which is why they haven’t generally been incentivized to offer users a clear choice to deny personalization — as TikTok will “soon”.
• “For example, if we decide a video is ineligible for recommendation because it contains unverified claims about an election that is still unfolding, we will let users know.
• Update: TikTok told us it already prohibits advertisers from using special category data to target users.
• But the DSA changes that.Twitter (now X) is an exception where a non-algorithmic feed has always been core to the product experience on the platform.