By Sara Brandstätter ( May 13, 2026, 08:00 GMT | Insight) -- Snapchat’s EU advertising repository may breach Digital Services Act transparency rules because of limited search functions, frequent outages and missing labels for commercial communications, researchers at AI Forensics have said. The group said Snapchat fixed one of the problems after being contacted directly, but other concerns remain unresolved.Snapchat falls short of transparency obligations for its advertising repository under the EU's Digital Services Act in three areas, researchers claim: limited search functionality, missing labels for commercial communications and repeated unavailability of the repository itself....
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