France chose to put its fears about the e-commerce platform Wish to the test by purchasing things and investigating what they received, similar to a nonprofit newsroom in the US. There were a flurry of offences, as it turned out. France is now requesting that the publicly traded American company be removed from search engines and app shops. Due to product safety concerns, France ordered search engines and internet platforms to remove Wish from its listings on Wednesday, and the US e-commerce site said it will challenge the decision in court.
The French government claimed in a statement that its consumer authority uncovered a large number of dangerous products on the Wish website, which is being investigated by multiple online merchants. Wish, which is owned by Context Logic Inc. (WISH.O) of San Francisco, failed to effectively recall the products and explicitly educate consumers about the risks associated with certain of the products supplied through its platform, according to the authorities.
According to the authorities, Wish was given a two-month deadline by the government in July to stop misleading consumers about the risks associated with several of its products. Wish’s move, according to French officials, was meant to send a strong message at a time when the European Union’s draught European Digital Services Act, which aims to make technology companies has been accountable in the online realm, and it is being finalized.
