The european commission is reevaluating its probes into tech giants including apple, meta and alphabet’s google, the financial times reported on tuesday.
The tech giants have urged us president-election trump to challenge european union’s regulatory scrutiny against them.
The implications of trump’s presidency were a factor in the review, one source told the newspaper, Clarifying
The review could lead to brussels reducing or changing the ranging of the probes, and will cover all the cases launched Since March 2024 under the European Union Union Union’s Landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA)The report said, citing sources.
The DMA is one of the most stringent regulations targeting tech giants’ market dominance, it dictates what the world’s largest tech platforms can and cannot do, and can impose fines up to 10 percent of a company’s annual revenue.
All decisions and potential fines will be paired while the review is complete, but technical work on the cases will continue, the newspaper said.
Regulators Google, Appleand Meta Cases, the report said.
Apple, Meta, Google and the European Commission did not immediatily respond to requests for comment.
The DMA Took Effect in 2022 Aiming to curb the power of big tech and ensuring a level playing field for smaller rivals.
Last week, meta scrapped its us fact-checking program in one of the biggest overhauls of its approach to managing political content on its services. This comes as ceo Mark zuckerberg Has been signaling a desire to mend fences with the incoming trump administration.
The eu is Mulling an expansion into it investigation into whichera trump’s close all Elon musk’s Social Media Network X Breached its content modiration rules, bloomberg news reported on Monday.
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