{"id":20601,"date":"2025-10-24T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/meta-found-in-breach-of-eu-law-over-ineffective-complaints-system-for-flagging-illegal-content\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:37:38","slug":"meta-found-in-breach-of-eu-law-over-ineffective-complaints-system-for-flagging-illegal-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/meta-found-in-breach-of-eu-law-over-ineffective-complaints-system-for-flagging-illegal-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta found in breach of EU law over \u2018ineffective\u2019 complaints system for flagging illegal content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission initial finding says Facebook and Instagram introduced unnecessary steps for users to submit reports<\/p>\n<p>Instagram, Facebook have breached EU law by failing to provide users with simple ways to complain or flag illegal content including child sexual abuse material and terrorist content, the European Commission has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a preliminary finding on Friday, the EU\u2019s executive body said Meta, the $1.8tn California company that runs the social media services, had introduced unnecessary steps in processes for users to submit reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/24\/instagram-facebook-breach-eu-law-content-flagging\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b6a07b87d9f382f4b8c9477932240db2c932d102\/156_0_4000_3200\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3db0cfacd4841d90d0a5d43fb95c19f9\" title=\"Meta found in breach of EU law over \u2018ineffective\u2019 complaints system for flagging illegal content\" \/>European Commission initial finding says Facebook and Instagram introduced unnecessary steps for users to submit reports<br \/>\nInstagram, Facebook have breached EU law by failing to provide users with simple ways to complain or flag illegal content including child sexual abuse material and terrorist content, the European Commission has said.<br \/>\nIn a preliminary finding on Friday, the EU\u2019s executive body said Meta, the $1.8tn California company that runs the social media services, had introduced unnecessary steps in processes for users to submit reports. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission initial finding says Facebook and Instagram introduced unnecessary steps for users to submit reports Instagram, Facebook have breached EU law by failing to provide users with simple ways to complain or flag illegal content including child sexual abuse material and terrorist content, the European Commission has said. In a preliminary finding on Friday, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/meta-found-in-breach-of-eu-law-over-ineffective-complaints-system-for-flagging-illegal-content\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta found in breach of EU law over \u2018ineffective\u2019 complaints system for flagging illegal content<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}