Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, 15 Others Subject to EU Content Rules

Alibaba’s AliExpress, Amazon’s Marketplace, Apple’s App Store and 16 different tech corporations will likely be topic to new EU on-line content material guidelines as of August, EU business chief Thierry Breton mentioned on Tuesday.

The different 16 corporations are reserving.com, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google Maps, Google Play, Google Search, Google Shopping, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, Microsoft’s Bing and Zalando.

Under the landmark guidelines referred to as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the businesses, all with greater than 45 million month-to-month energetic customers, are required to do danger administration, conduct exterior and impartial auditing, share knowledge with authorities and researchers and undertake a code of conduct.

“We think about these 19 on-line platforms and serps have change into systematically related and have particular tasks to make the web safer,” Breton told reporters.

He said he was checking to see whether another four to five companies fall under the DSA, with a decision expected in the next few weeks.

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