Ms Niamh Hodnett:

In respect of the binding obligations under Article 28b(3) of the audiovisual media services code hat I referenced, recommender systems or dealing with the amplification of harmful content is not included there. We propose to include recommender systems as a supplementary measure. Consequently, they will not be in our first code but these would be supplementary measures that we think are important to have in place to address the harm caused by the amplification of harmful content through recommender systems. These supplementary measures will need further engagement with the European Commission through a process called the TRIS directives and we have been talking with the European Commission about these issues since November on an ongoing basis. They may also be addressed by the Digital Services Act, as well as by the European Commission. Indeed, the European Commission opened an investigation yesterday into TikTok in relation to its recommender systems.