Facebook, Twitter, TikTok
The European Union (EU) is introducing tougher rules for major online platforms, including social media, to curb misleading content, remove illegal content and protect children and adolescents. If there is any error in this case, the platforms will have to pay a penalty from the annual income. TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have to comply with strict rules under the EU's content federation law - the 'Digital Services Act'.
This information is known in a news of Politico yesterday Friday. The media reported that the world's major technology platforms must adhere to certain rules on misleading content and better protect children online.
Europeans had until midnight yesterday to report how many Europeans use online platform services under the Digital Security Act. Platforms and search engines with more than 45 million EU users must comply with the Digital Services Act. These rules must be followed from the summer of this year. These include faster removal of illegal content, limiting misleading content and better protecting children and adolescents under the supervision of the European Commission.
In a blog post yesterday, TikTok said it had an average of 1.25 billion monthly active users in Europe between August 2022 and January 2023.
Meta reported last week that between June and December 2022, there were an average of 25.5 million monthly active EU users on Facebook and 250 million on Instagram.
Twitter said it averaged about 10 million users in the European Union over the past 45 days. In addition, there are more than 40 million EU users on YouTube.
European Commission's investigation
If the European Commission's investigation finds major online platforms guilty of wrongdoing, the commission could fine the technology firms up to 6 percent of their annual global revenue. An external organization will be responsible for monitoring how dangerous the company's algorithms and platforms are. Researchers can test some important internal components of the online platform.
Major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok are under investigation for spreading confusion and for some reasons. Instagram has been criticized for being harmful to the mental health of teenagers.
Big online platforms must pay 0.5% of their annual assets to the European Commission to fund enforcement of the Digital Security Act. The EU is somewhat flexible for smaller platforms. They have to be careful about illegal downloads. For them, the law will be applicable from 2024.
Tik Tok
TikTok has taken steps to keep its European users safe and secure. A Center for Transparency and Accountability will be launched at TikTok's European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland next March. In addition, they have more than 5,000 employees working in 10 European countries including Belgium, France and Germany. TikTok has announced that it will store the data of European users in three data centers in Europe. Two of these will be in Ireland and one in another European country.
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