The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta has violated DSA obligations requiring it to prevent underage children from accessing its platforms, a charge previously levelled only at adult content sites.

The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that Meta is in breach of the Digital Services Act for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram. The finding, issued on Wednesday, marks the first time the Commission has applied this specific charge, platform-level failure to prevent underage access, to a mainstream social media company, having previously reserved it for adult content sites.

The distinction matters.…