Irish media regulator opens investigations into TikTok, LinkedInThe probes were opened by the regulator in its new role supervising the compliance of platforms established in Ireland with the European Un...
03 Dec, 2025, 08.23 AM IST
Irish media regulator opens investigation into Musk's XIreland’s media regulator has launched an investigation into X over concerns about its content moderation appeals and accessibility of comp...
12 Nov, 2025, 11.32 PM IST
ChatGPT Search gains ground in Europe; could soon face EU scrutiny under DSA: ReportOpenAI began publishing usage metrics to comply with the Digital Services Act, the EU’s sweeping regulation aimed at increasing transparenc...
22 Apr, 2025, 07.29 PM IST
EU has limited power to suspend Elon Musk's XFormer European commissioner Thierry Breton said in an interview that it would be "possible" to suspend the platform across the 27-nation b...
17 Jan, 2025, 04.24 PM IST
Chinese online retailer Temu faces European Union investigation into rogue traders and illegal goodsThe European Commission opened its investigation five months after adding Temu to the list of "very large online platforms" needing the str...
31 Oct, 2024, 05.57 PM IST
EU requests info from YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok on content algorithmsThe commission said it had requested additional information from TikTok about measures the firm had adopted to keep bad actors from manipul...
02 Oct, 2024, 05.38 PM IST
TikTok, bowing to EU, withdraws rewards programmeTikTok will permanently remove a feature in a spinoff app in France and Spain that rewards users for watching and liking videos, bowing to ...
05 Aug, 2024, 04.23 PM IST
ET Explainer: Behind EU vs Elon Musk fight over blue tickThe European Union accuses Elon Musk's platform X of breaching online content regulations, including misuse of the blue checkmark and lack ...
16 Jul, 2024, 06.11 AM IST
EU warns Microsoft to give Bing AI risk data or face finesThe EU has identified generative AI as one of the key threats to elections being held across the 27-country bloc June 6-9. Brussels in Marc...
18 May, 2024, 12.54 AM IST
EU opens probe into TikTok, YouTube over child protectionThe European Commission said it had sent formal requests for information to TikTok and YouTube respectively, the first step in procedures l...
09 Nov, 2023, 09.29 PM IST
EU urges Big Tech to tackle terrorist content after Hamas attackOn Tuesday, EU industry chief Thierry Breton told Elon Musk to curb disinformation on his messaging platform X, warning it was being used t...
12 Oct, 2023, 09.33 AM IST
Big Tech braces for roll-out of EU's Digital Services ActAcross the EU, a host of internet giants - including Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms, Chinese-owned video app TikTok and a handful ...
24 Aug, 2023, 08.42 AM IST
Big tech to face full force of new EU lawThe Digital Services Act (DSA) forces companies to more aggressively police digital content and protect online users from disinformation an...
23 Aug, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
EU 'enforcer' visits Twitter, Meta as new rules loomThe two-day visit by Thierry Breton comes just weeks before the European Union's Digital Service Act (DSA) comes into full force for the wo...
22 Jun, 2023, 12.09 PM IST
EU to enforce new regulation to tame Big Tech in spring 2023Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission's executive vice president, earlier said the antitrust legislation could be implemented as earl...
09 May, 2022, 05.59 PM IST
EU agrees on internet rulebook for Google, Facebook, other tech giantsThe new rules ban targeted advertising aimed at children or based on sensitive data such as religion, gender, race and political opinions. ...
23 Apr, 2022, 12.52 PM IST
EU countries agree on common stance on new rules for US tech giantsFrustrated by the slow pace of antitrust investigations, EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager has proposed two sets of rules known as th...
25 Nov, 2021, 04.58 PM IST