European Commission preliminarily finds the For You feed of TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act

6 November 2026

TikTok has been preliminarily found in breach of the Digital Services Act by the European Commission, over what is being called the rabbit hole effect of its recommender system. Personalised videos run in a continuous stream on the For You feed, and they keep coming even where the subject is mental health struggle or body image. The pattern feeds itself: the more a user engages with one kind of clip, the more of that kind the feed algorithm puts up next. Harm can follow from that endless, repeated exposure when the material turns on sadness, isolation or body image. Rabbit holes of this sort can tell on the mental health of users, and vulnerable adults and minors are the most exposed. Two things are at the centre of the preliminary findings, the risk assessment the platform carried out and the mitigation measures it put in place. The Commission supervises designated very large online platforms and search engines under the regulation.