AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales
Illustration: The VergeJess WeatherbedCloseJess WeatherbedPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million (about $629 million) fine for violating Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products from being sold on the e-commerce platform. “Scale is not an excuse; risks must be identified and addressed systematically to ensure consumers can safely shop online.”This is the highest penalty ever imposed under the bloc’s DSA rulebook, followed by rival Chinese retailer Temu, which was also fined more than $230 million for similar DSA infractions in May.
- ▪Illustration: The VergeJess WeatherbedCloseJess WeatherbedPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computi
- ▪Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million (about $629 million) fine for violating Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent illegal, unsafe, or
- ▪“Scale is not an excuse; risks must be identified and addressed systematically to ensure consumers can safely shop online.”This is the highest penalty ever imposed under the bloc’s DSA rulebook, followed by rival Chinese retailer Temu, whic
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- ▪ EU fines AliExpress $630 mil. over sale of illegal products — Korea Times
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