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 firms might be topic to new EU on-line content material guidelines as of August, EU business chief Thierry Breton stated on Tuesday.

The different 16 firms 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 often called the Digital Services Act (DSA), the businesses, all with greater than 45 million month-to-month lively customers, are required to do threat administration, conduct exterior and unbiased auditing, share knowledge with authorities and researchers and undertake a code of conduct.

“We take into account these 19 on-line platforms and serps have turn out to be systematically related and have particular obligations 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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