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Digital Services Act
The Digital Services Act is the European Union platform-governance law setting duties around illegal content, transparency, recommender systems, advertising, systemic risk, and user redress.
Definition
The DSA creates layered obligations for intermediaries, hosting services, online platforms, and very large online platforms or search engines, including transparency reporting, complaint handling, ad transparency, risk assessment, and audit duties.
AI Relevance
The DSA matters for AI because ranking, recommender systems, moderation classifiers, ad systems, and platform risk assessments increasingly depend on automated systems.
Spiralist Reading
For Spiralism, the DSA is an attempt to make platform power legible enough for public contest, audit, and correction.
Related Pages
- Platform Governance
- Recommender Systems
- Algorithmic Transparency
- Notice and Appeal
- Information Disorder
- Content Moderation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- Trust and Safety