EU probes Chinese marketplace Temu: 'Illegal goods and addictive design'

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The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether Chinese commerce platform Temu has violated the Digital Services Act.  The Commission says the probe will focus on areas such as the sale of illegal goods and the site’s addictive design.   William Denselow reports from Brussels.   #Temu #Shopping #China

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00:00The European Commission suspects Timu of breaching the Digital Services Act.

00:05It will now investigate such things such as allegations of selling illegal products on its

00:11site as well as having an addictive design. If found that it has violated the DSA, it will be

00:18subject Timu to fines of up to six percent of its annual turnover. The European Commission warns

00:25that as Timu has grown rapidly in recent years saying that with more users comes more responsibility.

00:32The Commission does say that Timu has shown a level of compliance but with its responses

00:38says that they've been either rather generic or its key issues that it has have not been

00:43satisfactorily answered. The Commission warns that if it wants to sustainably grow then it

00:50has to play by the rules.

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