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Opinion

Brussels found the addiction. Now it must ban the design, not the bans.

The Commission's own findings name the machinery of Meta's and TikTok's addictive design, yet after two years and five sets of findings there is no final decision and no scroll switched off. With lawmakers in seven countries moving to ban infinite scroll, autoplay and luring notifications, the Commission should write the ban Europe-wide into the Digital Fairness Act instead of calling the patchwork fragmentation.