# Social Media Regulation and the European AI Act

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SO468

Brief Oral Poster PresentationDigital Psychiatry and Artificial IntelligenceLegal analysis

# Social Media Regulation and the European AI Act

SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION AND EUROPEAN AI ACT

Presenter: Joel Kohler

Country: Germany

Session: 4560 - PARALLEL SHORT ORAL POSTER SESSIONS: PUBLIC HEALTH & EPIDEMIOLOGY - Part VII

Date: Sat, 26.09.2026

Although the European AI Act does not directly regulate social media, it may complicate social media restrictions by classifying underlying technologies such as age verification as high-risk.

The aim is to examine how the European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) might affect social media regulation, taking into account social media bans being debated by health policymakers, particularly for at-risk groups such as children. Legal interpretation and business analysis methods were used. The findings indicate that social media is not the Act’s regulatory focus, and that the Act generally does not impose the stringent legal obligations specific to high-risk AI systems on AI-based social media; the connection to prohibited practices, such as the use of manipulative or deceptive techniques or the exploitation of vulnerabilities, remains unclear. Where applicable, the rules on general-purpose AI models will primarily entail procedural obligations, while certain transparency obligations, such as informing users that they are interacting with an AI system, are expected to apply. By contrast, the Act may have significant implications for the technologies underpinning bans, such as age assessment methods; because these technologies often rely on biometric data or methods such as social inference, they may be classified as high-risk AI systems or even prohibited practices. High-risk classification entails extensive and complex legal obligations for providers, which may limit or delay the availability of these technologies while also improving their accuracy, transparency, and reliability. The authors state that the Act avoids addressing growing concerns about the adverse health effects of AI-based social media and, in its current form, may complicate plans for stricter regulation, at least at the implementation stage, by heavily regulating underlying technologies. They argue that policymakers should take these effects into account when implementing and potentially revising the Act.

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APA 7: Kohler, J., et al. (2026, September 26). Social media regulation and european ai act [Poster presentation]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/2323

Vancouver: Kohler J, et al. Social media regulation and european ai act [poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. Available from: https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/2323

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