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Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter and Apple face stricter EU online content rules, based on monthly user numbers published by the companies, which exceeded an EU threshold for big online platforms.

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The new rules known as the Digital Services Act label companies with more than 45 million users as very large online platforms and subject to obligations such as risk management and external and independent auditing. Very large online platforms have four months to comply with the rules or risk fines. Twitter said it has 100.9 million average monthly users in the EU, based on an estimation of the last 45 days.

 

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