The €120M Risk

The DSA is no longer theoretical. It applies to all platforms since 17 February 2024, and fines can reach up to 6% of global turnover for serious breaches.

What makes the DSA different is that it focuses on how your product behaves, not just individual posts. Dark patterns, misleading verification, or opaque ranking logic can all create liability.

#The Design Trap

If your interface nudges users into consent, or your ranking system amplifies harmful content without transparency, regulators can treat that as a compliance failure.

#What Teams Should Document Now

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  The main parameters of recommender systems and user controls.
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  Evidence of risk assessments and mitigations.
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  Clear user-facing disclosures about how content is ranked.
• 4
  Logs and audit trails for key decisions.

#The Takeaway

The point is not the number. The point is that compliance is now built into product decisions. RegulaAI helps you capture the evidence you’ll need before procurement or regulators ask for it.