{
  "id": 15907431,
  "title": "Booking.com Anti-Fraud Practices Face Scrutiny in Europe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/booking-com-anti-fraud-practices-face-scrutiny-in-europe",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-21T15:26:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/fraud-prevention/2026/booking-com-anti-fraud-practices-face-scrutiny-in-europe/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "European regulators are investigating whether Booking.com has done enough to prevent scams on its platform. The European Commission (EC) announced Wednesday (Oct. 21) that it had opened a formal inquiry into whether the travel platform had violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by not having “diligently assessed or effectively mitigated” threats related to fraudulent listings […] The post…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}