Politico: The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (Lena-Maria Böswald)

The European Commission is taking unprecedented action against TikTok to combat its addictive design, specifically targeting features like infinite scrolling and algorithm-driven recommender systems. In this Politico article Senior Policy Researcher Lena-Maria Böswald weighed in on the significance of this regulatory escalation. Böswald highlighted that the Commission's actions represent a critical "turning point" for platform governance. She emphasized that, for the first time, European regulators are officially treating addictive design on social media as an "enforceable risk" under the Digital Services Act (DSA), setting a legal standard that will likely reverberate across other platforms like Facebook and Instagram.