The DSA investigation comes after French regulators found listings for ‘child-like sex dolls’ on Shein last year.

Under the Digital Services Act, a safer-internet law the 27-member bloc adopted in 2022, large online platforms can be hit with penalties of up to 6% of their global turnover.

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

This latest investigation, on behalf of the EU, will look into whether X violated the bloc's data protection rules. Violations can lead to hefty fines.