The European Commission has today issued a fine of €550 million against the Chinese e-commerce giant AliExpress for failing to "diligently assess and mitigate risks relating to the sale of illegal, unsafe or counterfeit products", according to the official press release. The DSA mandates that online platforms like AliExpress take measures to review potentially illegal products, and AliExpress apparently "overestimated the effectiveness of its system in detecting and removing illegal products". It also "inadequately assessed how its recommender and advertising systems exacerbate the spread of illegal products". The EC further states that AliExpress' system to detect illegal products didn't work properly, allowing "many illegal products" to circulate on the platform. Thus, in the end, according to the EC, AliExpress "failed to adequately prevent the spread of counterfeit products".