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French president dials up pressure on EU over age verification.

The government wants platforms to remove adult content or implement stricter age verification controls.

French government also wants to ban websites selling knives to children.

Aurore Bergé’s public scolding of industry representatives left insiders shocked and sent Clara Chappaz scrambling to clean up the damage.

Porn industry giant protests Paris’ measures to verify the age of users.

Efforts to protect kids online are gaining traction in Europe.

The investigations will focus on the platforms’ age verification measures, among other things.

The Commission’s next move could reshape tech accountability.

Document obtained by POLITICO shows countries pushing for EU-wide controls to protect kids online.

Liberal campaigners and politicians say social media crackdown to prevent Russian interference has gone too far.

ByteDance-owned TikTok is the second platform, after Elon Musk’s X, to get an EU warning under the Digital Services Act.

Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.

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The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

As digital enforcement kicks in, a high-profile investigation into Elon Musk’s X is still open.

European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen is facing growing pressure to wrap up investigations into TikTok, Meta and X.

Plans are being drawn up and, as one EU diplomat said, “We’ll take decisions to protect ourselves.”

The European Commission will assess whether TikTok is doing enough to stop harmful content connected to eating disorders.

The European Commission will enforce its digital rulebook without fear, said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Bucharest is at the center of a heated debate over social media policing.

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Tech regulation could be the next point of contention between the new U.S. administration and the EU.

Henna Virkkunen tells U.S. member of Congress that the EU is ‘deeply committed’ to protecting free speech.