Algorithmic Search and Recommender Systems in the Digital Services Act

It is impossible to imagine digital services without algorithmic search and recommender systems. They have the important function of pre-sorting the flood of information online for users. However, they also harbor the risk of competitive distortions and ideological bias. At the European level, the Digital Services Act responds to this primarily with transparency obligations, which we analyze in this article from a law and economics perspective. We conclude that the approach neither prevents poss