{"id":1813,"date":"2026-05-06T03:57:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/irish-regulators-are-investigating-whether-meta-is-using-dark-patterns-to-steer-people-away-from-non-algorithmic-feeds\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:57:53","slug":"irish-regulators-are-investigating-whether-meta-is-using-dark-patterns-to-steer-people-away-from-non-algorithmic-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/irish-regulators-are-investigating-whether-meta-is-using-dark-patterns-to-steer-people-away-from-non-algorithmic-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish regulators are investigating whether Meta is using &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European law requires large platforms to offer alternative feeds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/irish-regulators-are-investigating-whether-meta-is-using-dark-patterns-to-steer-people-away-from-non-algorithmic-feeds\/intro-1778010937.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/irish-regulators-are-investigating-whether-meta-is-using-dark-patterns-to-steer-people-away-from-non-algorithmic-feeds\/\">Irish regulators are investigating whether Meta is using &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European law requires large platforms to offer alternative feeds. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Irish regulators are investigating whether Meta is using &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}