The president has signed the law: the head of the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) becomes the national Digital Services Coordinator. It is Poland’s tool for the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The office will receive complaints, conduct proceedings and cooperate with the European Commission.
Is this the end of scams on Meta, the end of bullying publishers and theft of earned money? In short: it is the beginning of tools, not the end of the problem.
What UKE Actually Gets
The law of 4 September 2026 implements the DSA in Poland, more than two years late. It will take effect 30 days after publication in the Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw).
The head of UKE will, among other things:
- receive and examine user complaints about platforms,
- supervise DSA obligations of intermediaries subject to Polish jurisdiction,
- impose penalties within its remit,
- certify trusted flaggers and out-of-court dispute settlement bodies,
- cooperate with the European Commission and coordinators from other countries.
A National Digital Services Council (15–18 members) is to be set up at UKE, including representatives of the president, the Sejm, the Senate, the Commissioner for Human Rights (RPO), the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO), the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) and the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT).
Until now, UKE has operated only „temporarily”, mainly as a mailbox to Brussels. Now it is to conduct real proceedings.
Facebook, Scams, „Meta’s Responsibility”
The DSA requires large platforms to remove illegal content, explain their algorithms and give users a route to appeal. Meta, TikTok, Google and X, as very large online platforms (VLOPs), are however primarily under the European Commission, not the Warsaw-based UKE.
The Polish office can collect complaints from Poles, pass them on and penalise entities that are based here or fall under national supervision. It will not shut down Facebook overnight, nor will it make all fraud on Marketplace disappear.
Scams will not end with a law. They will end if platforms have to pay for failing to react, and that requires complaints, evidence and decisions, often in Brussels.
Publishers: Reach, AI Overviews, Monetisation
Here is something concrete. The Polish Chamber of Publishers (Polska Izba Wydawców) and Repropol filed a complaint back in 2024 about the drop in traffic to websites caused by Google’s AI Overviews and similar mechanisms. UKE then had no legal basis to take up the case. Now it does.
This is not an automatic return of „stolen money”. It is a door: a publisher can file a complaint, the office can open proceedings, and the Commission can go after a major platform. Freedom of speech and monetisation will not return with one decision by the head of UKE. They may return through pressure, penalties and an obligation to explain why traffic to sources is falling.
So What Is It?
The beginning of the end of impunity, if UKE and the Commission make use of it. Not the beginning of the end of Facebook.
Poland finally has a coordinator, complaints and sanctions on paper. Meta remains a corporation based outside Poland and under EU supervision.
For now the scams remain, but a Polish office will at last gain at least some powers to try to deal with the large platforms.
