Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, announced that from August 25, the EU will strengthen its supervision of 19 of the largest Internet services, including the TikTok video platform, the social network Instagram (the owner of Meta was considered extremist and banned in Russia). , YouTube video hosting, Google search engine, AliExpress online store and others. It has been reported TASS.
“With great scope comes great responsibility,” said the European Commissioner.
According to Breton, additional obligations are imposed under the digital services law. In addition to the above sites, they will be distributed: Amazon market, iOS app store – AppStore, Bing search engine, Booking hotel reservation service, Facebook social network (the owner of Meta is considered extremist in Russia and banned), Google Maps navigation application , Android – Google Play, Google search engine, Google Search indexing service, Google Shopping advertising platform, LinkedIn business social network, Pinterest visual search marketplace, app store for self-disruptive Snapchat social network-disruptive messages, Wikipedia virtual encyclopedia and clothing retailer Zalando.