The DSA, Due Diligence & Disinformation: A Disjointed Approach or a Risky Compromise?

The newly-introduced Digital Services Act (“DSA”) sets as its ambition ensuring a “safe, predictable and trusted online environment” by targeting the spread of illegal content, on the one hand, and the spread of harmful content, like disinformation, on the other. It imposes particular due diligence obligations on very large online platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, to achieve this end. But the vagueness of the provisions, the deference afforded to these platforms, and the disjointed a