Content Moderation and Competition in Digital Markets

In this contribution we look at the upcoming changes in the EU platform regulation. More specifically, we focus on the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) from the competition perspective. The DSA is less frequently discussed from this perspective compared to its companion regulation: the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), which explicitly aims to increase contestability of digital markets. We argue that the DSA, via the modification of liability rules for the platforms, may also bring competitive ef