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Costs of product recalls by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as reflected in the market value of affected firms.

2024 will see numerous elections, including the European Parliament Elections in June. The Digital Services Act (DSA) obliges Big Tech to assess and mitigate systemic risks for "electoral processes". The Commission published Draft Guidelines on the mitigation of systemic risks for electoral processes and sought feedback from all relevant stakeholders. While the protection of election integrity is a laudable aim, the Guidelines as proposed would not rebuild but further erode citizen trust in the digital environment and democratic processes. The recommendations are too vague, too broad and too lenient as regards the suggested cooperation between Big Tech, civil society and public authorities.

Wasley talks about a raft of new gag laws in the US. Some commentators believe the current crop of 'ag-gags' have borrowed from the model adopted by the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The powerful lobby group--made up of corporations and politicians--suggests pre-packaged laws, according to its critics, which serve members' vested interests before handing them over, ready to roll, to legislators on a state-by-state basis. Unsurprisingly, many food corporations and agricultural organizations support ALEC, which in 2003 introduced the contentious Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act, a federal law designed to target radical environmental and animal rights groups. Some fear that 'ag-gags', designed to suppress investigations into factory farming, could be used to target activists and journalists probing other aspects of the food industry. Adapted from the source document.