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Today, the European Commission has launched two whistleblower tools for the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Today, the European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether Meta, the provider of Facebook and Instagram, may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The European Commission has designated Apple with respect to iPadOS, its operating system for tablets, as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”).

As part of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the first set of Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs), designated in April 2023, are due to publish their second round of transparency reports by by 6 May.

On April 25, 2024, DG CONNECT hosted the third meeting of the European Board for Digital Services to discussions on DSA election guidelines, the results of the stress test of platforms election readiness, and updates regarding disinformation and hate speech codes.

The Commission is sending a letter of formal notice to the six Member States.

These are the results of the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the Cloud, Data and Artificial Intelligence call under the Digital Europe Programme.

Today, the Commission has conducted a simulation exercise with designated platforms, Digital Services Coordinators, and civil society organisations to test their readiness against election manipulation and interference in relation to the European election.

The EUCAIM project funded under the Digital Europe Programme has launched its open call for new beneficiaries to join the project deploying the Cancer Image Europe platform.

The Commission takes note of TikTok's decision to unilaterally suspend the “Task and Reward Programme” of TikTok Lite in France and Spain for an initial period of 60 days as of today for new users and by the end of the week for all other users in France and Spain, and in any event no later than 1 May, and to pause the roll-out of TikTok Lite in other EU Member States.