European Commission Targets US Tech Giants in First Digital Markets Act Probe

European Commission Targets US Tech Giants in First Digital Markets Act Probe
Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and European Commissioner for Competition, and EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, participate in a press conference on the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act in Brussels, Belgium, on Dec. 15, 2020. Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock
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The European Commission—Europe’s antitrust and consumer investigation agency—on Monday launched investigations into Alphabet, Apple, and Meta for potentially breaching a landmark new law designed to prevent Big Tech having an unfair advantage over competitors.

In a statement, the commission said that it “suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA,” referring to the commission’s Digital Markets Act.