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AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales

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Jess Weatherbed
AliExpress fined almost $630 million over illegal product sales
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The European Commission has fined AliExpress €550 million for failing to prevent the sale of illegal and unsafe products on its platform. This penalty marks the largest ever issued under the EU's Digital Services Act.

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. The European Commission ruled that AliExpress didn’t take effective measures to reduce the dissemination of illegal products, noting the company “allocated insufficient staff” to verify products, and failed to remove unsafe toys and dangerous cosmetics for “multiple weeks” after they were detected.

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