BRUSSELS: TikTok, Twitter, Apple Store, Amazon and several other online platforms have announced user figures in Europe that bring them under stricter EU regulations for policing internet content. The companies published their numbers ahead of a deadline Friday made compulsory under the new EU Digital Serv
BRUSSELS: TikTok, Twitter, Apple Store, Amazon and several other online platforms have announced user figures in Europe that bring them under stricter EU regulations for policing internet content.
Several platforms had chafed at the introduction of the new EU rules - and some said only that they did or did not qualify as a very big platform under the DSA. "We note with some concern that some platforms only published an estimation that they are below the threshold. This is not sufficient," warned a commission spokesman, Johannes Bahrke.
Friday's deadline for platforms to report"average monthly active recipients" determines which big platforms get enhanced EU scrutiny.
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