WhatsApp might face higher regulation within the European Union due to a rise in customers on its open channels. The platform announced Friday that these feeds for information sources, public figures and extra averaged roughly 46.8 million customers within the EU over the last half of 2024. This enhance in customers means WhatsApp's open channels, akin to a social community, now qualify as a Very Massive On-line Platform (VLOP) beneath the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA).
The DSA makes use of the labels very massive on-line platform or search engine when the entity has greater than 45 million month-to-month customers within the EU. These designations permit the European Fee higher regulatory energy round clear promoting, content material moderation, an annual impartial audit, information sharing with the EU and extra. Related on-line platforms should additionally mitigate and assess the danger of damaging and unlawful content material.
WhatsApp's mum or dad firm, Meta, is already designated as a VLOP (and not happily), alongside ByteDance, Amazon, Google and extra. The European Fee will now want to find out whether or not to provide WhatsApp the designation.
This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/eu-might-impose-further-regulation-on-whatsapp-152832935.html?src=rss
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