Ireland leads charge to force Big Tech to vet financial ads for scams

EU member states push for rule change to make tech groups shoulder responsibility for fraud that costs billions each year.

8 May, 2025 by Paola Tamma and Barbara Moens in Brussels and Jude Webber in Dublin

The European Commission faces pressure from several member states to make social media platforms shoulder the burden of fighting online payments scams that defraud people out of billions of euros each year.

The initiative led by

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