Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs
The European Commission yesterday fined Alibaba subsidiary AliExpress €550 million ($630m/ £467m) for not doing enough to stop selling dodgy products - the largest ever fine issued under the Digital Services Act.
AliExpress is Alibaba’s consumer-facing e-commerce brand and complements the parent company’s B2B biz.
Brussels last year warned AliExpress that it wasn’t doing enough to stop sellers on the service hawking illegal products, or to ensure its recommendation engines didn’t promote those dodgy goods. Wielding the awesome powers of the Digital Services Act (DSA), Brussels told the Chinese e-commerce company to clean up its act and spelled out the steps required to do so.
A year later, the Commission (EC) decided AliExpress hasn’t done enough and announced the giant fine, which the Commission justified because it found AliExpress did not properly evaluate whether...
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