Since February a brand new regulation, generally known as the Digital Providers Act (DSA), compelled all platforms within the EU to guard on-line customers from unlawful and dangerous content material.
However platforms with at the least 45 million month-to-month energetic customers within the EU have even higher obligations, and they’re regulated by the fee quite than nationwide authorities.
The obligations embody figuring out the dangers posed by the platforms and placing measures in place to mitigate them in addition to making certain third-party auditing.
The EU has designated 25 platforms as “very massive” together with Fb, Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube.
Telegram escaped the additional guidelines because it mentioned it had 41 million customers within the 27-country EU in February.
The fee has admitted to having “doubts” about Telegram’s claims.
