Jan Penfrat<p>Very excited to have filed a formal complaint against <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> & <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> today under the <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DigitalServicesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalServicesAct</span></a>. </p><p>Together with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@bitsoffreedom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bitsoffreedom</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@Freiheitsrechte" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Freiheitsrechte</span></a></span> & Convocation Design+Research, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@edri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>edri</span></a></span> represents an Irish user and found that <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> uses <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DeceptiveDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeceptiveDesign</span></a> patterns to discourage people from choosing the <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/newsfeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newsfeed</span></a> that's not based on <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/profiling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profiling</span></a>.</p><p>That newsfeeds option is a key requirement under the DSA and deceptive design is prohibited. So there you go.</p><p><a href="https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edri.org/our-work/civil-societ</span><span class="invisible">y-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/</span></a></p>