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EU tightens antitrust rules for six digital giants

To protect the community market, the bloc will apply the new Digital Markets Law to 22 products from TikTok, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, which guarantees interoperability between services and prevents search engine favoritism for products from the same company

  • 20/09/2023 • 01:31

The European Union (EU) announced this Wednesday that it will subject six digital giants to stricter antitrust rules to protect the community market.

 

The EU decided to apply the rules of the new Digital Markets Law to 22 products from TikTok and GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft), such as search engines, social networks, instant messaging and web browsers.

 

The selected companies, which he called "gatekeepers" due to their dominant position, have an annual turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros in the European market and more than 45 million monthly users and 10,000 annual business users throughout the territory of the European Union, reported the Euronews portal.

 

In its note, the EU refers to the companies responsible for these platforms, such as Alphabet (Google conglomerate), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (TikTok, the only Chinese one in the group), Meta (Facebook) and Microsoft.

 

The operating systems Android (managed by Google), iOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft), and the advertising services of Google, Amazon and Meta, were subject to the new rules, which must allow interaction with other messaging services that belong to the competition.

 

The list also affects six of the so-called intermediation services (Google Maps, Google Play, Google Shopping, Amazon Marketplace, App Store and Meta Marketplace), the AFP news agency reported